Odersky is a complete fringing retard for saying this. Its similar the to the crap that Hitler would come out with. The language itself is nothing great and saying we want geniuses to use it... well I think I may just put my C++ hat back on.
2010/9/28 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > 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. > -- 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.
