"scala is designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages. It is also fully interoperable with Java." (from the scala website)
> Many places waited until the last moment when Java 4 was finally > End-Of-Life-ed. Even then, they may choose to use the "-source 1.4" > compilation flag to keep the crazy features out. the companies you are talking about are conservative by nature (for example: financial institutions), I do not think any language (or even a simple upgrade) has a serious chance in the area. If java 8 came out with a ton of language features (which may or may not going to happen in ~2014), the financial institutions would wait at least +3/5 years to adopt it (and from their prospective: rightly so). So if you want to sell scala (or any new tech) in this area, it's going to be a tough call no matter what kind of new technology you want to introduce. how interesting again that Microsoft decided to provide powerful language features to their "joe" developers and let them decide whether they want to use them or not. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
