That's a double-negative... If you *are* an inferior developer and unwilling to learn, then Scala is not for you. I think this was the entire point... There are a lot of 9-5 "code monkeys" out there who are genuinely unwilling to learn, Scala will not appeal to these people.
But if you are willing to learn, then you won't automatically like Scala; you may prefer Clojure, or Haskell, Coq or Agda, or some extreme Java hackery - like writing lombok or lambdaj. However, you *will* find that 100% of current Scala developers are in the "willing to learn" group, and those coming from a lot of Java experience are in the "trying to push the state of the art" group as well. On 28 September 2010 12:29, Casper Bang <casper.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > So by inference, people who are not convinced by Scala, are inferior > developers unwilling to learn? > > On Sep 28, 11:55 am, B Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:51, Vince O'Sullivan <vjosulli...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > > > On Sep 28, 9:23 am, Kevin Wright <kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > An important trait of being a good programmer is the willingness to > learn > > > > and push the boundaries of what can be done well. That's also why > Scala > > > is > > > > quite suitable for new programmers, including children and students. > > > > > There's no logical connection between those two sentences. > > > > The logical connection is "willingness to learn". Presumably students are > > willing to learn. "Good" programmers are also willing to learn. (Or would > > you argue that they are not? Or perhaps that all programmers have the > same > > level of skill and interest?) > > > > // ben > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@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.
