I am a practitioner. Language designers often like novel things. "new" things. Practitioners have other concerns.
-Andy On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Rémi Forax <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/13/2011 06:16 PM, Andrew Oliver wrote: > >> It looks more Groovy-like to me. Also the approach is more similar to >> Groovy. I'm actually interested in this one. Most of the time I'm like >> "another one" and think that the academic elegance of the language takes too >> much away from the practical usability of it. JRuby appeals to me for >> similar reasons. Scala doesn't appeal to me as much because I don't see its >> usage in a mixed environment with different levels of skillset. >> > > Scala is an academic language and not Ceylon. > It's a marketing argument, not an engineer argument. > > >> -andy >> > > Rémi > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "JVM Languages" group. > 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/jvm-languages?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. 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/jvm-languages?hl=en.
