Yes, it's pretty unfortunate. One reaction on Twitter:
"Keeps the tourists at home. If someone takes the time to learn Scala or Clojure then they really want to be a good developer." :-( -- Cédric On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- 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.
