jlist9, This is a Lift group, but I have to say I feel the same about Scala.
I had to ask for advice here: http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb/browse_thread/thread/a588f997af842f93/60c378bb36d26030 Scala may help me to get my work done for the day. But I don't feel happy with Scala. Scala makes me feel I'm a slave all the day to machines (or Scala itself!). On Oct 22, 2:13 pm, jlist9 <jli...@gmail.com> wrote: > override def validations = validPriority _ :: super.validations > > This is a more of a comment about Scala than one about Lift - this does > look cryptic to me. And this is just one of the simpler syntax that confuses > people, who are new to the language. And I'm one of them. > > I understand that you don't have to learn all the tricks/syntax to start > coding in Scala but you do have to understand it when you read > source code of libraries written by someone with much more advanced > language skills. > > In David's book he says "After more than two years of coding Scala, ... > My brain has finally stopped hurting." This sounds like a very high > barrier to entry. > > I'm just wondering why Scala has to be so complicated. I'm sure a lot > of things in Scala have their reasons but at the mean time I also > suspect that many of the odd things are there to reduce > typing, which is advertised as one of the advantages of this language - > conciseness. (I could be very wrong due to my lack of understanding.) > If the latter is true, I feel that I'd rather type a little more to make the > code easier to read. > > Just feeling a little frustrated learning Scala. I think it's much > easier learning > Java. Not much surprise. Not sure if anyone shares my experience > (and opinion, if there is one.) > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Randinn <rand...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >http://localhost3000.de/2009/10/a-quick-glance-at-lift/ > > > The site above is a blog post from a Rails developer, he had some good > > and bad things to say about Lift and since I do not know enough to > > debate with him I thought I'd post it here. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
