On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 14:59, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > I've got to say that I don't find any great empathy for either of your two > justifications to choose a language. For me, the more important concerns > are: [...]
Apart from > - Does it map closely to my mental model of the problem at had the rest of your points for me look more like general questions - questions that are less important, if it would be just for one project. I think you look more for the more general allround-language. > - Is it truly general purpose, Indeed, you mention it. > PHP really doesn't tick too many of those boxes for me. Java's better, but > still has a fair share of problems. Pretty my favorite also. But I know people doing only web applications and are basically just annoyed by the overwhelming list of choices to web frameworks - or GUI technologies (such as SWT and Swing). > For most projects I'm tackling at the > moment (though not all) Scala is looking more and more to supply what I > need. I have not used Scala for a real project nor did I really test it out. But I looked at the syntax and some code samples. I find Java more readable and in my gut feeling I think Scala is more for the advanced developer than for a beginner - which IMHO hides potential for introducing more bugs. I prefer the more KISS approaches not introducing too much language features or possible constructs. - But this is just a gut feeling and my personal favor. We will see how it evolves and I will for sure have a look at Scala from time to time. -- Martin Wildam -- 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.
