On Jan 31, 2013, at 1:42 PM, Mircea Markus <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. ^ I wonder whether C programmers thought the same way 20 years ago. Cheers, > > Cheers, > -- > Mircea Markus > Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > infinispan-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev -- Galder Zamarreño [email protected] twitter.com/galderz Project Lead, Escalante http://escalante.io Engineer, Infinispan http://infinispan.org _______________________________________________ infinispan-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev
