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 > > -- > 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.
