-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/6/10 23:17 , ADRA wrote: > > If you really want a quantifiable result, then get a pilot program > with two high school grade 11 classes and teach one class Java and > the other Scala. This is clearly the best measurement, but there's no need to run the experiment with a high school - the experiment is basically continuously run in the world, where only a fraction of people (*) decide to use Scala vs Java.
Re: syntactic sugar. In my opinion syntactic sugar _is_ complexity, thus the fact that the grammar gets more complex sounds right to me. Syntactic sugar e.g. with Groovy, where one can avoid punctuation, sure makes readability better, but for me has been a great headache to learn how to write correct Groovy code (then forgotten, since I stopped using it). It's much simpler for me to know that I have to always put parentheses and know the precise points where I have to put semicolons. (*) Of course I'm keeping into account the subset of people who got a reasonable knowledge of what Scala is. - -- 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/ iEUEARECAAYFAkxcf1IACgkQeDweFqgUGxe6gQCgmXYpCsCPtH8d7iXpqW6yBbSu oREAmOesa32dPKU+d1eiT2WcwlwpWDg= =MbJ/ -----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.
