I have 'inflicted' Option on these people and not had any real problems. On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:21 AM, clay <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Today, JVM programmers are highly divided. > > > I'm not sure about that. Sure, if you read this mailing-list and you go to > conferences, it's very easy to get this impression because the community you > belong to is, by definition, made of seekers and curious professionals who > live on the bleeding edge of their profession. It's a text book example of > sample bias. > > Step outside of this community and ask random Java developers what they > think of JVM languages besides Java and most of them have hardly heard of > Scala, much less taken a look at it. I bet they will also think that Java is > a great language and much more fun to work in than C++ was, which is all > they care about (and honestly, I can't blame anyone with this line of > thought). > > -- > Cédric >
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