On 15 July 2010 08:54, Mario Fusco <[email protected]> wrote:

> I cannot count how many times I've heard (and participated to) this
> kind of discussion in the last years. What always surprise me is that
> it often looks more similar to a religious or at least ideological
> discussion than a technical one. Could please somebody explain me why?
>
> My personal opinion (derived from what I saw with my colleagues and
> friends) is that one is against FP often because he doesn't understand
> its advantages and why it matters. I believe that this article is one
> of the best introduction to FP:
>
> http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html
>
> Of course I don't want to give up to all the benefits of OOP, but I
> don't think anybody is asking that. Scala is the demonstration of how
> is possible to take the best of both these programming paradigms. So
> why shouldn't we try to do the same in Java?
>



Scala is exactly what happens when you try to do this in Java.
Well, that and get rid of some boilerplate at the same time :)




> My 2 cents
> Mario Fusco
> twitter: @mariofusco
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