On 4/12/11 5:28 PM, Lee Hinman wrote:
As someone who currently works on the Clojure lib for OpenNLP, I would like to
throw in my support for a push to a more functional style codebase. Immutable
objects and less global state would definitely make it easier to work with, be
it with a Java refactoring and/or a move to Scala.
+1 for Scala/Refactor (or Clojure, but Scala is probably an easier transition
to make :)
I do not think that converting an existing code base to a new programing
language is
good for the project, and tend to vote -1 when it comes to the decision.
Jörn
