On 10 November 2010 14:03, Steven Siebert <[email protected]> wrote: > Obviously, vendors leave items out of comparison chart because they are > concerned about storage/page load times and not for any other reasons. =) > > I wanted to provide a ref here because, despite the inevitable hostilities > and eventual thread hijacking into a Scala rant (hehe)....I like to see that > more and more languages are made for the JVM. In general, I'm much more > interested in the health of the JVM than a specific language that runs on > it. =)
No chance, this one's headed for a Clojure rant! Half of the items on that list are synonymous with "not dynamically typed", and the last one is "not lisp" I may be a personal fan of static typing, but I think that particular comparison chart is taking it just a *little bit* too far... > > S > > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]>wrote: > >> It's biased, of course! >> >> Since when was "not lisp" a valid tickable criterion? >> >> They also missed functional composition, homoiconicity, immutabe by >> default, default/named parameters, by-name params, extensible (either within >> the syntax or through compiler plugins), implicit conversions, type classes, >> dependent types, etc, etc... >> >> On 10 November 2010 13:41, Steven Siebert <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> http://gosu-lang.org/ >>> >>> The side-by-side is interesting: http://gosu-lang.org/comparison.shtml=) >>> >>> Apparently they plan to release the language itself (community edition) >>> soon.... >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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]<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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > 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.
