Cripes, people. He even used 'hitler'. You're being trolled. Kevin: Using the fact that there is at least 1 troll on this entire planet as justification to keep up your crusade would be very wrong. Please don't.
On Oct 2, 10:07 am, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Liam. > > Up until this point I had been worrying that I was seeing demons where there > were none, and coming across as being something of a zealot. > > You have now single-handedly reinforced my concerns that Scala is being > unfairly attacked in purely subjective fashion. Through attacks that lack a > sound logical basis, citations, or even a passing familiarity with the > language. > > Still, I'm going to continue to try and avoid coming across as a zealot in > the future, largely by being wary of those few individuals who seem bent on > goading me into such a role. > > Finally... > I hereby invoke Godwin's law to the fullest extent possible. > Under the terms of this illustrious legislation, it shall henceforth be > known to one and all that Scala objectors are guilty of "reductio ad > Hitlerum". > > This thread is now formally closed, and may the Lord have mercy on its soul. > > On 2 October 2010 05:28, Liam Knox <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > 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%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups > >> .com> > >> . > >> 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]<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups > > .com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- > Kevin Wright > > mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] > pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright > twitter: @thecoda -- 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.
