On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]>wrote:

> I believe that response is an example of what psychiatrists term
> "deflection"


You are saying that Kojo teaches Scala, I'm disagreeing and I'm giving you
what I believe is a sound technical reason for my response. How is that
deflection?


> The point is that the kids programming in Kojo *are* using Scala.  It maybe
> a subset, a DSL, call it what you will, but the type-checking, function
> composition, parsing, etc. rules are all pure Scala.
>
> It's then totally possible (and a very natural progression) for the more
> advanced students to then break out and use a wider range of built-in scala
> constructs and libraries.
>

Of couse, but the point is that what is taught in this class is not Scala.

-- 
Cédric

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