That's ok, I wasn't making any counterpoint.

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sure, but that was not my point...
>
> --
> Cédric
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Ricky Clarkson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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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