-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/13/10 08:33 , Kevin Wright wrote: > Have you considered alternative JVM languages that give you access > to the full java ecosystem but still have all that juicy > functional goodness? > > I have a vested interest in Scala, but Groovy, Clojure, etc. are > also looking good nowadays. Definitely worth checking out! > Rather than a point on closures, this sounds as a point on communications:
But given that no activity is directly or indirectly visible through the mailing list, we can infer that there is basically no one at Oracle working on closures Indeed, the bad thing is that Oracle changed the communication policy of its engineers (as David Flanagan, BTW, pointed out in his post). So, the fact that nobody talks on a thing doesn't imply that nobody's working on it. While I understand that previous Sun openness policy would have been hard to keep, because it was one-in-its-class in the corporate world, I find that the current Oracle policy is too strict. It's ok if they keep it only for a period after the transition, as it might help to keep the transition mess under a better control, but in the long term it could be bad both for Oracle and for Sun (at least in my maybe-naive community perspective). I'd like to point out that communication transparency is not strictly related to the governance model of things. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvrotoACgkQeDweFqgUGxflTQCfa0cgRXhcd3NdASGGq7VZRe0J WJQAn0nloq/4PaAfLY/c1l+EKL4MK+C4 =zEq7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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.
