Interesting question that I have been pondering myself.
In the absence of specific evidence to the contrary I think that both
languages are worthy of consideration but I think that perhaps the
static typing of scala may be more compelling.
Just my opinion though.
On May 5, 8:11 pm, blais wrote
>From my limited understanding it seems that a lazy data structure must
at some point reify and therefore be cached, to my mind, the
alternative is better describes as a stream or generator.
That is not to say that said stream is not the source of the
reification but that it might be better to k
Nice code chouser, always nice to see a succinct functional example.
On Dec 13, 10:15 am, Chouser wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Dmitri wrote:
>
> > I wrote a simple word counter described herehttp://ptrace.fefe.de/wp/
> > it reads stdin and counts the occurrences of words, however
I am using the svn version 1086 and this works fine for me.
If you have never used subversion don't worry it is very simple to
use.
Here are basic instructions.
Download ant from
http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
Supposing you downloaded apache-ant-1.7.1-bin.tar.gz
Open a terminal
My preference is that the book focuses on the default java stack.
I am hoping that the book can demonstrate the simplicity of developing
with clojure and avoiding additional configuration and downloading of
significant libraries and frameworks that might dilute that message.
That being said, I a
