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

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