ijuma wrote: > On Dec 20, 2:35 am, Weiqi Gao <[email protected]> wrote: >> As long as you smart people are having discussions like this, us >> enterprise developers will just wait. :) > > You mean that _some_ enterprise developers will wait. Just in this > thread, Peter said that he's using it in the enterprise and then > there's SAP and EDF to give two examples. James Iry has already > alluded to this, but it's very funny how people use different measures > for Scala than they do for Java. Discussions like this happened when > generics were introduced to Java and still happen today many years > later (check the Eclipse e4 mailing lists for discussions about moving > to Java 5). Following that kind of reasoning, enterprise developers > would not use Java 5 either.
Many places waited until the last moment when Java 4 was finally End-Of-Life-ed. Even then, they may choose to use the "-source 1.4" compilation flag to keep the crazy features out. > I don't pretend to know if Scala will manage to create a niche in the > enterprise market (I certainly don't expect it to be as popular as > Java has been), but the reasoning used here to say it won't has not > convinced me. I'm not saying that it won't. I'm just saying that if it does become popular in the enterprise, it will be because its proponents have found a simple message and had hit that message consistently for a sustained period of time. Again, in very simple words, what is Scala? And what will it do for me? Let me give you another example: Ruby on Rails's message has been "Convention over configuration. It increases your productivity." What's Scala's? -- Weiqi Gao [email protected] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
