On 06/12/2011 08:39 PM, Casper Bang wrote:
[http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=328540]
I'm one of the ones frequently annoyed by the "just use Scala" posts,
but Bruce Eckel's recent blog entry has me thinking perhaps it's the
way to go. Not because I necessarily agree with all of Scala's
philosophies and proponents (frankly I prefer Fantom's pragmatic
viewpoints over Scala's "let's capture everything through an ultra-
capable typesystem"), but because the critical mass now virtually
guarantees it's a good investment for any working programmer who just
wish to move on from Sun legacy.
Read it... bah. In tutorials everything is simple and clear, if the
writer is skilled. It seems that All The Problems Of The World lie in
parentheses and semicolons. The real world is another thing. The
validation of Scala, if it comes, won't be in tutorials. Critical mass
and good ROI are very relative and still volatile at this point. While
if I look at my situation I'd say that I won't find a single customer to
whom I could sell my hypothetical skills in Scala (but maybe it's
because since I don't know Scala I don't search for Scala customers;
OTOH I seldom have to search for Java jobs, they come spontaneously),
the point is another: I still find lots of things that I don't know that
would give a much greater ROI if I spent some time in learning them.
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