> You see, Scala doesn't have success because the world is so full of stupid > > and lazy people. Gents, I declare myself the champion of stupidity and > laziness. >
Sorry that I didn't reply to your other comment. I assumed that bringing up the old "but Java is more popular" when debating about language design and evolution to be sufficiently desperate. What's your point? I honestly don't see it. Should Java adopt more PHP features, because it is the most popular language for web sites? Or should it add some more features from JavaScript because it is the most popular language running in the browser? Now, please, enlighten us. I suppose you took a few seconds to wrote your > latest email; please explain us the reasoning beyond the remaining 3 > minutes. So perhaps we'll learn how to be less stupid and lazy :-) > Sorry, but your making up things I have never said. Especially, I didn't say that anyone on this list is "stupid and lazy". Looking at the papers related to Scala, it is pretty obvious that most papers are not about any language feature at all. One of the latest Scala-related paper for instance is about improving Scala's general-purpose data structure. (Clojure ships with more or less the same data-structure, btw. So I wonder if the fit the "academics!!!!" slur as well.) There are a lot of papers discussing common software engineering issues and describing Scala's approach towards it. No "we added a language feature and wrote a paper about it" either. Interestingly, the only recent papers discussing language features, use a separate branch of Scala (scala-virtualized) which will probably never see any substantial incorporation into trunk. So both the connection between "Scala adds language features to write fancy research papers" as well as the base assumption of Scala adding "complex features to the language" is wrong. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/43UStZY_H7wJ. 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.
