What‘s worse, it type–casts developers not convinced by scala, as bad developers. I take issue with that formulation, it doesn't take a chef to assert a distaste.
On Sep 28, 5:15 am, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > With apologies to the previous thread, whose topic I shamelessly plagiarized > :-) > > Martin's full > response<http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=270&thread=306728> > : > > *Bill Venners: *Some people lately have expressed doubt whether Scala is a > language for the average Java programmer. What's your opinion? > > *Martin Odersky*: Scala at the moment doesn't need to be a language for the > average Java programmer. The programmers we want to appeal to are the expert > programmers—the good programmers. Our aim is to make them much more > productive than they are with Java. I believe over time there will be enough > teaching materials and enough good tools to also make Scala appeal to more > average programmers. But that's not what our immediate aim is, and I think > good programmers can become more productive with Scala now. > > This sounds like a reversal from the past position, and saying that Scala is > for good programmers only is not going to help adoption, unfortunately. > > -- > Cédric -- 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.
