> You'll find it very, very hard to critically compare the authors of the Java
> and Scala compilers here with a clean conscience.
> Not least, because they're one and the same.  I'll say it again: "Odersky
> wrote the Java compiler"

OTOH being a great hacker/implementer vs. a great language designer,
requires a very different set of skills. One could almost argue that,
for mass adoption, a language can NOT first and foremost appeal to the
elite. That's kind of what I hear Reinier say, and if that's the case,
I sorta agree with him.

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