On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > That's when the question to write libraries in Scala to be consumed by > Java > > application code. > > I think your point probably says more about Java than it does about > Scala, though that notion has been highly controversial in this forum > until Scala, JavaFX etc. gained growth. > And as Joshua Bloch likes to remind us from time to time, we are > almost always writing libraries. So why the empathy on libraries? From > my point of view, the real killer from Scala could be the ability to > mimic LINQ (expression trees and monads) and allow application > developers to query anything, without us having to resort to ugly type- > unsafe DSL's in Java annotations. > Casper, yes _we_ write libraries, but there are millions of Java developers out there who only code Java to earn their wages. And they are the ones consuming the libraries. So basically, what I'm saying, if we can produce great libraries, faster, with cleaner usage patterns, isn't that the way to go? > > /Casper > > > -- Viktor Klang Senior Systems Analyst --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
