I am your average corporate developer, the one that "*cannot understand Scala because it is very complex*". I build GIS enterprise systems in Java for the most part (Javascript on the front end). It is all Dick Wall's fault (thank you Dick) that I started looking at Scala with great amounts of curiosity, his passion shows and is contagious. But I dreaded the "complexity". Yeah, sometimes I don't know what I'm doing because I'm still learning, but I tell myself that it will get better if I keep at it, and heck, I went to college and got an engineering degree so I can do this (self cheerleading mode on). It already has proven useful in a tangential small project for processing data (your typical CPU bound, collection based data processing originally full of for loops and iterators; thinking this one in functional terms has been hard but refreshing). I'm not sure if the code is as functional as it should be, but I can tell you that it works and I wrote a lot less of it, I can see it being a time saver once I get more productive and comfortable with it, if only for these mundane and "boring" tasks. If anything it was a fun exercise.
The context? A contractor for the Federal Government in the US, I'm based in Washington DC. In this area something like Scala is anecdotal, but I believe if it gets more traction, better tooling support, etc. you can see it take off, there are a lot of big systems around here that could benefit from this language. In my company another team has used Groovy with Spring as well, also for a Fed. Agency. So other languages happen but Java is still king and used for almost everything here. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Peter A Pilgrim <[email protected]>wrote: > Maybe it would help if those guys (and gals) from those countries > actually chimed in with those details themselves. As that is what I am > interested in really and not from the point-of-view of hearsay. > However this discussion has already be stymied and thwarted. > > On Mar 29, 12:50 pm, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 29 Mar 2011 12:47, "Peter A Pilgrim" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > -- > 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. > > -- Juan Marín Otero GIS Consultant -------Visita mi blog en--------------------- http://guachintoneando.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
