After about 10 years of Java development, I found Python and fell in
love. I never really felt comfortable giving up static typing, but I
was really attracted to much of what Python had to offer -- the
language, its community, and its lessons. When I picked up Scala a
year ago, I felt a huge sense
Another thing that might help are some ideas about how to incorporate it
into existing projects without having to gut the project or start over with
a new one. If I have a big website, how do I add some new feature using
Scala instead of Java. People still have to maintain old code but if adding
Sc
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>> Read it... bah. In tutorials everything is simple and clear, if the
> writer is skilled. It seems that All The Problems Of The World lie in
> parentheses and semicolons. The real world is another thing. The validation
> of Scala, if it comes, won't be in tutorials. Critical mass and good RO
> While if I look at my situation
> I'd say that I won't find a single customer to whom I could sell my
> hypothetical skills in Scala
To be fair, as a consultant you're probably generally working with
people who are slightly behind the curve. I bet Java 5 and earlier
come up for you too.
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"Indeed, I grew tired of the whole mindset that language design is more
important than programmer time; that a programmer should work for the
language rather than the reverse. So much so that I thought I had grown out
of programming altogether. But now I think I might just have been tired of
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On 06/12/2011 08:39 PM, Casper Bang wrote:
[http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=328540]
I'm one of the ones frequently annoyed by the "just use Scala" posts,
but Bruce Eckel's recent blog entry has me thinking perhaps it's the
way to go. Not because I necessarily agree with all of
[http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=328540]
I'm one of the ones frequently annoyed by the "just use Scala" posts,
but Bruce Eckel's recent blog entry has me thinking perhaps it's the
way to go. Not because I necessarily agree with all of Scala's
philosophies and proponents (frankly
I think that UmlGraph is fantastic. It has been configured in my
superpom for months. But it has a main problem: there's not enough
documentation (and examples, in various contexts) and I don't understand
where's a forum or a mailing list where to have feedback. So when
there's something that d
