Hi Meir, thanks for the prompt response, and sorry for my late one.
On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 08:51:08 +0300 Meir Maor <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm glad you enjoyed my lecture and were impressed enough to give > Scala a try yourself, that was exactly my aim. Thanks. > Scala is still somewhat bleeding edge(mostly tooling), and when you > work with bleeding edge you occasionally get cut. I can see that now. You have implied otherwise in your lecture. > However all your issues seem very minor to me. They are not. > The issue of using Scala with JDK 7 and the swing libraries is not > that Scala won't work with JDK 7 > it is simply you need an extra type parameter and so you can't write > the same code for JDK 6 and JDK 7. Scala won't compile with JDK 7, and I cannot install the pre-compiled package for it on Mageia Cauldron because it requires JDK 6. So I am unable to deploy it. > Scala 2.10 M6 should be the last milestone, and though I wouldn't use > it in production environment, I see no reason > why a project starting now shouldn't use Scala 2.10 it is plenty > stable and has a few nice improvements (better reflection, implicit > classes sugar, string interpolation,...) OK, if Scala 2.9.x cannot be built with JDK 6, why was Scala 2.10 not released yet? This is not a "minor" problem. > I hardly think difficulties building from Source is a reason to ditch > a programming language, I hope you will reconsider. I cannot use it at all at the moment on Mageia Linux Cauldron because I am unable to install the .rpm package and cannot build an up-to-date version from source. > If I didn't use any program I had difficulties building from source > the first time I tried I wouldn't be using Linux or open/libre office. > Well, I may be biased because I had enough similar issues with Java/JVM-based programs in the past, that I tend to run away screaming from anything Java/JVM-based. I recall having difficulties building from source with other programs which I was able to resolve, but with Java/JVM it's a 100% hate-hate relationship. So I gave up on Scala due to the Java/JVM track record. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ UNIX Fortune Cookies - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/ No one calls Xena the warrior princess “Zeena” to her face and survives. Luckily for you, she hasn’t visited the modern day United States yet. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Discussions mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions
