On Jul 25, 1:36 am, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > Looks like someone looked at C# and Scala, then did a bit of cherry-picking. > Problem is, they lost much of the deeper elegance in Scala by doing so:
Sure, I'd say the sweet spot of Stab is in being a much better Java- like language than Java. Whereas Scala brings a new kind of language to the table given it's functional nature, interesting tweaks of OOP, actors, et al. That's all nice and fine, but there's a so-called market that just wanted a nicer Java with a significant boilerplate reduction and removal of obvious warts. I have developers that work on C# .NET platform and many that work on JVM and use Java there. The pointy-headed side of me says, hey with Stab, these developers could more easily move back and forth between platforms as project needs fluctuate. Heck we're homogenizing in other respects, using a 3-tier stack approach: Flex RIA in the client, an HTTP servlet container and MDB container in the middle-tier, IoC (Spring Framework), an object cache. Stab would enable a bit more language homogenization. And why could a Java programmer complain about this? They be able to use what is a definitely better language than the plain Java they use now. -- 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.
