On 2/6/13 3:58 PM, Mircea Markus wrote: > On 6 Feb 2013, at 15:37, Galder Zamarreño 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. > Personally I don't believe Scala is the next big thing as it doesn't > have a "killer" feature, e.g. OOP from C -> C++ or GC from C++ -> Java.
+1000. Let the flame war start (Galder with his lighter against us with flam throwers) :-) -- Bela Ban, JGroups lead (http://www.jgroups.org) _______________________________________________ infinispan-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev
