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By bloid
via code-redefined.blogspot.com
Published: Apr 21 2008 / 10:55
Scala needs a celebrity, both human and digital. Ruby hooked me because it was just so danged easy to put together fancy data driven websites in Rails with it, and then I learned it was mostly Ruby and not the Rails library that was to thank for that (although there are some *really* cool things in Rails). I want to like Scala, but it isn't any more attractive to me than Haskell (nothing against Haskell).
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rd112681 replied ago:
yet another blogger who hasn't read the book
'It's really bad that the intro to Scala (the longer one) is filled with math references and excruciating detail about the Scala implementation of generics.'
Barry Carr replied ago:
Some good points, esp about new concepts have to very easy to learn for jobbing programmers.
Personally, I think Scala looks really cool and I hope it gains a lot of traction. The one thing I don't like about the Java platform is Java, but I'll be the first to admit that the JVM is really good - much better than the CLR (I am a .NET dev, btw). Scala could tempt me away from .NET (yes, I know about the .NET version of Scala but it seems to be a bit of 2nd class citizen) and then I could ditch working on Windows once and for all.
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