I've been busy writing Scala versions of Didier Besset's 'Object-
oriented implementation of numerical methods' and it keeps amazing me
with its expressiveness. The Scala implementations of these
algorithms are way shorter than the Java or even the Smalltalk
versions presented in his book.
(http://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Implementation-Numerical-
Methods-Introduction/dp/1558606793)
I have considered using it with WO. Having XML built into the
language makes it very suitable for writing web apps, specially
servlets. But having WO's component approach available, there's no
added value.
Though I've seen great benefit to using Scala when having to write
complex code, like in numerical methods, my WO apps usually contain
very simple code. Ninety percent of the time I'm just creating,
modifying, storing or deleting records. For the typical database
applications there isn't much added value to using Scala IMHO.
Rudi Angela
On 13-jun-2007, at 0:41, Q wrote:
I have been tinkering with Scala (http://www.scala-lang.org)
lately, and the more I use it the better it gets. In fact at this
rate I might have to stop looking at it for a while, because It
makes writing a lot of things in java feel like such a chore.
I haven't tried writing a basic WO app with it yet, but I have used
it to write a simple backend reporting tool for a client, and it
was actually quite fun. The only source of frustration was the
relatively immature eclipse plugin.
Is there anyone else exploring these waters?
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