1. Can someone elaborate why Xtend is half-arsed Scala imitation? Some examples? Argumentation? Valid points? 2. Some might say that Scala is half-arsed Smalltalk/Erlang/Clojure imitation. As one old man said: "There's always a bigger fish."...
Regards, Blazej Bucko On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Ricky Clarkson <[email protected]> wrote: > That's pretty much what I was trying to say. Groovy is a half-arsed Java > imitation (to me), similarly Fantom->Scala, PHP->Perl, Ruby->(Smalltalk, > Perl) > ________________________________ > From: Cédric Beust [email protected] > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 09:46:46 -0800 > To: <[email protected]> > ReplyTo: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Yet another JVM lang: Extend > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Ricky Clarkson <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Because they usually repeat the mistakes Scala and its users try to avoid. > > Every single language that comes out avoids certain mistakes and repeats > certain others. Scala is no exception. > -- > Cédric > > -- > 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
