On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 01:35:56 +0200, Simon Ochsenreither
<[email protected]> wrote:
What's your point? I honestly don't see it. Should Java adopt more PHP
No - it shouldn't *add* things. It should *drop* things and get simpler.
Don't ask me which things to drop - I'm not a language designer and I
can't tell. Offer me a coherent and complete subset of Scala and we'll
reason on it.
Do you want a reference of the level of simplicity I like? Ok, think of a
static-typed only Dart. Note that I'm not saying I specially like Dart,
neither that it will have success. For the record, I'm not using it,
neither studying it. But it has got OO, it has got closures, it has got
even reified generics (which might be important or not), everything
designed from the ground up and not by incremental additions such as Java
8. Something roughly like that, producing JVM bytecode and compatible with
the existing Java runtime, is something that I'd consider as a *candidate*
that *could* have mass success in the industry. More complex than it, it's
unlikely.
Sorry, but your making up things I have never said. Especially, I didn't
say that anyone on this list is "stupid and lazy".
I said *I* was, of course, but I think there's at least one more person in
the world who doesn't appreciate Scala; if I find even another one, and I
think I have some chances, well, three's a crowd, so "we" sounds
appropriate :-) After all, being the champion of a single-man team is not
that big satisfaction.
Thanks for the explanation about papers. I wasn't making that point, it's
not an argument of mine as I don't have enough knowledge, but I'm glad I
can make an opinion on it comparing Cedric's and your arguments.
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