[The Java Posse] Re: Scala for the enterprise?

2008-12-28 Thread Tony Morris
No Rob, we disagreed many times. Disagreeing is fun and enlightening. The ban came when you stopped disagreeing and acted childish because you were upset that I was challenging your deeply held beliefs (since that is what it is James - not a "presentation issue" - sigh). The ban was removed 3 minu

[The Java Posse] Re: Scala for the enterprise?

2008-12-24 Thread Tony Morris
Hi John, Zwitserloot is not saying anything meaningful. He may be trying to say something about the different properties between scala.List and java.util.List. For example scala.List is always evaluated in-memory, is immutable and has constant time insert, while java.util.List says nothing about

[The Java Posse] Re: Scala for the enterprise?

2008-12-23 Thread Tony Morris
On Dec 24, 12:13 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > Ah, Tony Morris. Still getting kicked out of ##java within 10 minutes > of opening your mouth? I do want functional programming to become more > of an influence, so some friendly advice: You don't want him as your > evangelist.

[The Java Posse] Re: Scala for the enterprise?

2008-12-23 Thread Tony Morris
> An interface that declares that a certain container type is capable of > running the map function. This is Iterable in scala... Bzzt wrong, perhaps you don't know as much about Scala as you think. And even if it was Iterable, this has nada to do with higher kinds - you know, abstracting on *ty

[The Java Posse] Re: Scala for the enterprise?

2008-12-23 Thread Tony Morris
James, I have some advice. Zwitserloot is very clever at constructing a discussion in such a way as to appear to have some clue. He doesn't. Not a bit. He doesn't know the first thing about Scala, Haskell or even Java for that matter. I have evidence of this fact which you (and I!) require before