On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 13:29, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:
> So by inference, people who are not convinced by Scala, are inferior > developers unwilling to learn? > No, don't be silly. What a motivated developer choses to learn need not be Scala. There's a vast landscape of interesting languages/tools/techniques one might choose to tackle. What a particular developer chooses will depend very much on their own interests and needs. In the last 10 years, I've deepened my understanding of linux and the gnu tools, refreshed and extended my skill with emacs, learned more python, learned to use eclipse competently, fought many drawn-out battles with maven, grumbled about xslt, decided xsd wasn't all I'd hoped for and that I liked relax-ng better, learned a little lua, been completely defeated by forth, introduced subversion at my place of work, learned to use git and git-svn for my personal projects and invested a fair amount of time in using Clojure in practice recently. I've also read about Scala and played with it a little. Some day, I'd like to try to wrap my mind around its static type system, but not right now. Clojure's keeping me busy enough. Some of these investments have been very worthwhile (linux, bash, maven, svn, git, clojure), and others less so (forth, lua). The point though is that I'm willing and eager to learn new stuff. I consider that part of my role and identity as a programmer. In the grand scheme of hackerdom, I'm quite certain that I'm not all that clever, but I've also seen colleagues who are -- at best -- incurious, and I wonder why they chose this career. > On Sep 28, 11:55 am, B Smith-Mannschott <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:51, Vince O'Sullivan <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > On Sep 28, 9:23 am, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > An important trait of being a good programmer is the willingness to > learn > > > > and push the boundaries of what can be done well. That's also why > Scala > > > is > > > > quite suitable for new programmers, including children and students. > > > > > There's no logical connection between those two sentences. > > > > The logical connection is "willingness to learn". Presumably students are > > willing to learn. "Good" programmers are also willing to learn. (Or would > > you argue that they are not? Or perhaps that all programmers have the > same > > level of skill and interest?) > > > > // ben > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
