On 13 January 2011 13:36, Ricky Clarkson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm a bit confused as to why Scala programmers have the gall to claim the > > moral high ground in regards to multi-core programming. > > The confusion is in your head. Scala programmers don't claim that high > ground. > > > For example, scala has enshrined foldLeft and foldRight forever more as > core > > language, by importing both of those by default as operators (i.e. "/:", > as > > a token, is a fold operator in scala unless you go out of your way to > > unimport it). > > Let's rewrite that without the emotional crap: "Scala has foldLeft and > foldRight (and symbolic versions of those) in the standard library." > Yes, it does, but so what? > > Java has java.util.Data and java.util.Calendar. So I think that's enough said about judging a language based on classes and methods that just so happen to be defined some standard library, yes? -- Kevin Wright gtalk / msn : [email protected] <[email protected]>mail: [email protected] vibe / 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.
