David Pollak wrote: ... PS -- April Fools
Phew! I thought you were serious for a minute there. Byron > Folks, > > It's with much excitement and enthusiasm that I'm announcing that the > lift developers are abandoning lift development in Scala and instead > turning our efforts to developing lift for Cobol, to be known as Heavy > Lifting. > > While lift development has been progressing well over the last 13 > months, we've come to realize that the lift codebase is not growing > very quickly, although lift's feature set and stability have both > grown markedly. This is wrong. > > We've decided that we need a development environment where we can > measure the value of the code base in lines of code rather than > features and lack of defects. Cobol with its extreme verbosity offers > an ideal way to achieve this goal. > > Further, we found that selling Scala into existing organizations is a > challenge and got sick of hearing "Yeah, so Martin Odersky wrote javac > 1.1-1.4 and designed the good parts of Java Generics, but what > impressive thing has he done this year (other than being inducted to > the ACM as a Fellow)?" We found that hanging our hat on folks like > Grace Hopper is just much easier because you can't argue with dead people. > > Cobol offers a large "green-field" opportunity for developing a web > framework and offers many lucrative consulting opportunities where we > won't be hampered by an efficient language and an efficient framework, > but can work to milk the clients for significantly larger fees while > justifying the fees with the above mentioned "Lines of Code" metrics. > > There are other factors influencing our decision. They include the > Scala community vs. the Cobol community. No longer will we be > mentally challenged by stimulating debates and discussions about > language futures. We'll not have to worry about parsing Tony's code > or watching Jamie take a complex argument and distill to its > very essence in the few short words. No longer will we be shamed by > Lex's warm approach to the community or Burak's tireless work to > improve Scala. No... we can say goodbye to all of that and instead > mire in a community where they are still debating the best way to > convert from ASCII to EBCDIC. > > No, the lift committers are no longer worrying about language futures, > the advantages of being pure and lazy. Nope... not us. We're > worrying about formatting our comments and spewing forth 25 lines of > code where 1 line of Scala would happily do the job. > > Thanks Scala community for showing us the true light and allowing us > to rise to the level where we belong: Cobol. > > David > > PS -- April Fools > > -- > Scala lift off unconference, May 10th 2008, San Francisco > http://scalaliftoff.com > lift, the secure, simple, powerful web framework http://liftweb.net > Collaborative Task Management http://much4.us > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to "Bay Area Functional Programmers" To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bayfp?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
