> > 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. >
I didn't mention "stupid and lazy" in connection to people disliking Scala. That's neither what I said nor thought. I wrote that in my opinion his assumption that he can get away claiming made-up things which don't withstand 3 minutes of research is disrespectful to the readers of this list. There is nothing wrong with having an opinion, but trying to sell misleading claims as facts is in my opinion not a great way to interact with other people. Offer me a coherent and complete subset of Scala and we'll reason on it. I choose Scala 2.11 (+ no view bounds, + refined higher-kinded types) as a coherent subset of Scala. What would be your opinion on that? Please, let's avoid straw man argument. In every debate of Scala I'm > repeating the same point, I'm not going anywhere: Scala usage is low and I > > don't see it substantially growing. > Yes, please avoid the straw man! Repeating "but Java is more popular" is already well-known, accepted by everyone and doesn't add anything to an debate about language design and evolution. It is an obvious as well as desperate try to kill off a debate. I'm talking > about the capacity of communicating ideas and make them popular. I think > the point was clear from the exchange of a couple of weeks ago. This > doesn't deny that a few people are using it, and doing very good things, > and there also some niche market for it where experts are highly > appreciated. Minorities won't change the industry, though. > JEP 101: Generalized Target-Type InferenceJEP 103: Parallel Array SortingJEP 104: Annotations on Java TypesJEP 105: DocTree APIJEP 107: Bulk Data Operations for CollectionsJEP 108: Collections Enhancements from Third-Party LibrariesJEP 109: Enhance Core Libraries with Lambda JEP 118: Access to Parameter Names at RuntimeJEP 119: javax.lang.model Implementation Backed by Core ReflectionJEP 120: Repeating AnnotationsJEP 126: Lambda Expressions and Virtual Extension MethodsJEP 139: Enhance javac to Improve Build SpeedJEP 155: Concurrency updates (jsr166e)JEP 160: Lambda-Form Representation for Method Handles I think I'm very happy with the change in industry. -- 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/-/dkdcKqVGwQIJ. 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.
