The slides are interesting and make some good points. However, pure functional is not easy. I think Scala is headed in the right direction by merging OO and functional programming. I think Scala is brilliant, but flawed. In fact, I think the flaws in Scala cannot be fixed without defining a new language. So, the successor to Scala has a shot at being the Next Big Thing. I'm pretty sure that the merging of OO and FP is the Next Big Thing Idea, which is why Groovy/Ruby/Etc. have been slowing heading there. But they are doing it more for syntactical reasons whereas Scala did it for theoretical reasons. This, in my mind, is why Scala is so much closer to getting it right.
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Helmut Denk <[email protected]> wrote: > > for people interested in some deeper insights > i recommend: > > http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey > > http://clojure.googlegroups.com/web/AreWeThereYet.pdf > > (good to know, but a little bit dangerous for people > who have a a tight schedule ;-) > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/from-the-new-overview-section%3A-why-groovy---tp28114915p28116694.html > Sent from the gradle-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > > -- John Murph Automated Logic Research Team
