As a Java programmer, you'll find Scala to be an awful lot more accessible that lisp is :)
On 29 April 2010 14:56, Wildam Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 15:37, Kevin Wright > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Of that collection, only one that stands out as having anything truly > > different is SQL (it's declarative, instead of procedural like the > others) > > If you want to exercise the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis properly, then you'll > > need to be exploring languages that approach problems in a whole new > > perspective. At least one functional language > > (lisp/ocaml/scala/erlang/haskell/etc.) is an absolute must-have. > > I have learned about Lisp in school but that was one of the languages > I was sure I would never use in a real project. Maybe it is my kind of > thinking or just a personal preference but I really don't like that > functional stuff. I find it less readable and have a few other > complaints I can hardly put into words. Maybe I should give such a > language really a try. But it is not that I didn't look at them at > all. > -- > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright mail/google talk: [email protected] wave: [email protected] skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- 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.
