Why, are there some inaccurate judgements you might otherwise make
about Java based on those two classes?

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> 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?
>
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