To counter: I think it can be good if the old language is crufty and the way of the past... ;)
Cheekiness aside, I probably won't contribute as much to coding for OpenNLP if we can't start mixing in Scala. Jason On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Jörn Kottmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/12/11 5:28 PM, Lee Hinman wrote: > >> As someone who currently works on the Clojure lib for OpenNLP, I would >> like to throw in my support for a push to a more functional style codebase. >> Immutable objects and less global state would definitely make it easier to >> work with, be it with a Java refactoring and/or a move to Scala. >> >> +1 for Scala/Refactor (or Clojure, but Scala is probably an easier >> transition to make :) >> > > I do not think that converting an existing code base to a new programing > language is > good for the project, and tend to vote -1 when it comes to the decision. > > Jörn > -- Jason Baldridge Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics The University of Texas at Austin http://www.jasonbaldridge.com
