On 31 Jan 2013, at 12:37, Manik Surtani wrote: >> I don't think that encouraging scala code is good purely for maintenance >> reasons. If there's a choice, it should be java. Not saying that learning a >> new language is not cool - but in practice people are a bit put off by >> maintaining Scala code. Its not only about what the writer of the code >> prefers as a language: it's more important what the maintainers of the code >> will has to work with. > > Would such maintainers also be put off by new language features (lambdas) in > Java 8 when we (eventually) baseline to it? :-) It's really NOT the same thing: any decent java programmer keeps up with all the enhancements in Java. What I might not want to - as an ISPN programmer - is to keep up with the language enhancements in Scala. And I might need to do that because of Scala language enhancements used in ISPN.
Cheers, -- Mircea Markus Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org)
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