On 31 Jan 2013, at 13:14, Bela Ban <b...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On 1/31/13 1:48 PM, Mircea Markus wrote: >> Agreed on all points. >> OTOH learning/using a new language can be good fun, so with that in >> mind having Scala in ISPN might be a positive think. From what I saw >> discussing with people is that not everyone shares this enthusiasm in >> using Scala, and even fewer in debugging Scala. > > Agreed. > > *If* someone wants to learn a new *great* language, learn Clojure. Blows > Scala right out of the water**1 :-)
I've heard some interesting arguments about how Clojure won't scale due to its concurrency model (everything's immutable, defensive copies everywhere), meaning that CPU caches end up being useless. :) I don't know enough about how it is implemented to comment myself though. > > But even if I like Clojure, would I write some of JGroups (e.g. a > protocol) in Clojure ? No way, exactly for the same reasons that I > listed in this email thread. > > > **1: OK, I have to admit that I did a fair amount of CLOS back in the > days, and love Lisp dialects... > > -- > Bela Ban, JGroups lead (http://www.jgroups.org) > > _______________________________________________ > infinispan-dev mailing list > infinispan-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev -- Manik Surtani ma...@jboss.org twitter.com/maniksurtani Platform Architect, JBoss Data Grid http://red.ht/data-grid _______________________________________________ infinispan-dev mailing list infinispan-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev
