Jim White wrote: > Scala has the right machinery for implementing a prototype for Java 3. > Alas it suffers from the problem of other JVM languages like JRuby, > Jython, and JavaFX in that it has gratuitous syntax deviation from Java > for features that are the same as in Java.
Them's fightin words! Syntax is important, but I don't think in the way that Scala's using it. Of course I'm biased, but Ruby's syntactic "endulgences" appear to be focused on making programming more fun...making programmers happier. I think that alone deserves a lot of credit. Most languages focus on "one way to do anything" or "we're easy for X programmers to learn". Matz focused on making Ruby "fun". We could all use that kind of gratuity in our languages. And Ruby is far more flexible and capable than Java. It's just slow (so far). - Charlie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
