On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Chris Lewis <[email protected]>wrote:
> > My head just exploded. Twice. > That explains the wet face this morning when I woke up... thought it was the dog licking it... :) > > ngocdaothanh wrote: > > Because Lift's ad is so good. > > *boom* > It was good. My first thought was "Yeah.... rIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!" Let's see what they mean..... And voila... here I am.. so it was good, if only because it was right :) > > For example: > > > > "Lift is the only new framework in the last four years to offer fresh > > and innovative approaches to web development. It's not just some > > incremental improvements over the status quo, it redefines the state > > of the art. If you are a web developer, you should learn Lift. Even if > > you don't wind up using it everyday, it will change the way you > > approach web applications." > > > > Lift can't be used without Scala. Is there a plan to implement Lift in > > Clojure, for example? :D > > *BOOM* > Ummm.. ok.. This one I understand. > > > > > > > On Oct 22, 3:47 pm, TylerWeir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Oct 22, 2:02 am, ngocdaothanh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> jlist9, > >>> This is a Lift group, but I have to say I feel the same about Scala. > >>> I had to ask for advice here: > http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb/browse_thread/thread/a588f997a... > >>> Scala may help me to get my work done for the day. But I don't feel > >>> happy with Scala. Scala makes me feel I'm a slave all the day to > >>> machines (or Scala itself!). > >> If it makes you feel like a slave, why are you using Scala at all > >> then? > >> > >> > >> > >>> On Oct 22, 2:13 pm, jlist9 <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> override def validations = validPriority _ :: super.validations > >>>> This is a more of a comment about Scala than one about Lift - this > does > >>>> look cryptic to me. And this is just one of the simpler syntax that > confuses > >>>> people, who are new to the language. And I'm one of them. > >>>> I understand that you don't have to learn all the tricks/syntax to > start > >>>> coding in Scala but you do have to understand it when you read > >>>> source code of libraries written by someone with much more advanced > >>>> language skills. > >>>> In David's book he says "After more than two years of coding Scala, > ... > >>>> My brain has finally stopped hurting." This sounds like a very high > >>>> barrier to entry. > >>>> I'm just wondering why Scala has to be so complicated. I'm sure a lot > >>>> of things in Scala have their reasons but at the mean time I also > >>>> suspect that many of the odd things are there to reduce > >>>> typing, which is advertised as one of the advantages of this language > - > >>>> conciseness. (I could be very wrong due to my lack of understanding.) > >>>> If the latter is true, I feel that I'd rather type a little more to > make the > >>>> code easier to read. > >>>> Just feeling a little frustrated learning Scala. I think it's much > >>>> easier learning > >>>> Java. Not much surprise. Not sure if anyone shares my experience > >>>> (and opinion, if there is one.) > >>>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Randinn <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> http://localhost3000.de/2009/10/a-quick-glance-at-lift/ > >>>>> The site above is a blog post from a Rails developer, he had some > good > >>>>> and bad things to say about Lift and since I do not know enough to > >>>>> debate with him I thought I'd post it here. > > > > > > > > > > > -- James A Barrows --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" 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/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
