On 31 Jan 2013, at 12:47, Bela Ban wrote: > On 1/31/13 1:37 PM, Manik Surtani wrote: >> >> On 31 Jan 2013, at 12:35, Mircea Markus <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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? :-) > > I don't think so. First, this will be a few years off anyway. Second, > this will not pose cross-language debugging problems. And third, even > Java+closures is still Java. +1
Cheers, -- Mircea Markus Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org)
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