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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