On Dec 9, 11:03 am, MassH <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sure Scala has plenty of tangible benfits, but you can make > similar cases for most other programming languages and it is all > firmly in the realm of developer preference. > > If you're looking for the hot jobs/sklls of tomorrow, finding new > applications of technology is far more relevant than any specific > programming language or tool.
That last paragraph is golden. great advice ! > > On Dec 8, 4:34 pm, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > So we take the proven reliability of Functional Programming, as demonstrated > > by Erlang > > And deploy it on a near-ubiquitous corporate JVM ecosystem with about as > > much pain as adding a dependency to commons bean-utils. > > As an incidental benefit, the developers are spared 2/3 of their code, which > > was just boilerplate anyway - thus making the thing easier to maintain. > > > I don't think any of this is "too abstract and geeky", or just a research > > toy, there are some definite high-visibility benefits to be had here. > > Unless you believe that concepts like "time to market" or "system downtime" > > are just inconsequential academic trivialities. > > > I'm in total agreement though that a "hot product", such as twitter, would > > do wonders for the adoption of Scala > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:45 PM, MassH <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That's exactly the kind of "out of touch" I was thinking about. > > > > “I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be > > > statisticians,” said Hal Varian, chief economist at Google. > > > (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/technology/06stats.html) > > > > That sounds a lot more plausible and that's the type of discussion > > > that isn't happening over here. > > > > Scala is an abstract, computer geek, research toy. > > > > You need a hot market, a hot product, and a revenue stream or a > > > realistic chance of getting one first, and then toolset and > > > implementation issues like choice of programming language follow. > > > > On Dec 8, 1:14 pm, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > But this group is largely out of touch with the opportunities and > > > > > demands of the industry. Where is there money to be made? Where are > > > > > the best jobs of today and tomorrow? What are the most important > > > > > skills to learn? > > > > > Scala...? Please be Scala! > > > > -- > > > > 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]<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups > > > .com> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- 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.
