Toby DiPasquale on 19 Jul 2007 03:36:23 -0000


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[philly-lambda] Re: Scala, anyone?

  • From: "Toby DiPasquale" <codeslinger@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: [philly-lambda] Re: Scala, anyone?
  • Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:36:11 -0400
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On 7/18/07, Andrew Gwozdziewycz <apgwoz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have heard of it, but haven't used it. To me it looks as though a bunch of
> Java developers
> decided that functional programming was a cool idea and hacked up a new
> language. Thats
> my impression from the 2 minutes I've looked at it.

I didn't really get that impression from Scala: frankly, that's what I
thought F# was. The ability to call into existing Java libraries is
pretty handy, I must say, if for no other reason than to use the
mountain of pre-existing Java libraries without actually having to
write your code in Java ;-) Plus, it could be a lot easier to
introduce to my fellow engineers given its more-like-C-than-Haskell
syntax and semi-familiarity of the JVM/Java environment.

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Toby DiPasquale

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