About the Reddit post... Truth is, all languages (except lisp) have some potential for misunderstanding when it comes to precedence, associativity, etc. If in doubt, use brackets - that's what they're for!
About the rest of this thread... Obviously I can't speak for anyone else here, but I'm not on a mission to force the world to love Scala. On the other hand, I *do* find it very frustrating when I see frequent unsubstantiated claims that: Scala is complex Scala is too hard for the "average" developer Functional programming is academic, and not something for the "real world" Lombok and LambdaJ can do everything Scala can do Java is absolutely the least complex language in the whole world, ever Scala programmers don't use or understand Java Code needs to be long and heavy on boilerplate so it can be understood ...ad nauseum All of these being highly subjective and/or completely false. This is totally unfair to other developers who, after reading such a claim, reverse a previous decision and choose not to investigate Scala. So no, I'm not out to "convert" everyone, I only ever want to bring balance to the discussion so that anyone with a potential interest won't be misinformed. If you look back over the history of this mailing list you'll see that all the heated debates over Scala started when the language was first mentioned in a demeaning anti-Scala comment. Such comments usually demonstrate that the Scala objector doesn't understand the language, and hasn't used it enough to give a fair evaluation. It's at this point where anyone who does have the experience must step in and correct the error. This isn't evangelism... it's peer-review! <making a point> The Scala compiler doesn't even have a "resolver" phase. Referring to such a phase just demonstrates a lack of familiarity/authority with regards to Scala </making a point> 2010/9/29 Cédric Beust ♔ <ced...@beust.com> > > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Casper Bang <casper.b...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> > What is it about Scala that causes so many to loathe it? >> >> I feel compelled to turn it around on yourself. Why MUST everyone >> absolutely love it? > > > I think this is the key point. > > I have seen a lot of language advocacy over these past twenty years > (comp.lang.advocacy ftw!) but none has come even remotely close to the > intolerance and aggressiveness shown by Scala advocates. Yup, not even Lisp > nor Smalltalk zealots. That should tell you something :-) > > To paraphrase a saying, "I like your language, I just don't like its > followers" :-) > > -- > Cédric > > > -- > 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.
