Interesting rant about Scala's issues

[deadalnix]

On Saturday, 5 April 2014 at 18:47:50 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/5/2014 10:10 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 04/03/2014 04:45 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 4/2/2014 6:55 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> A lot of them could apply to us as well.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1lpKBMkgg
>>>
>>>
>>> at about 44:00: "I begged them not to do them [AST macros]." 
>>> :-)
>>
>> (This is a misquote.)
>
> Yeah, I should have been more accurate.
>
> In response to a question about macros & reflection:
>
> "I begged them not to, not to just export the compiler to I 
> begged them I begged them not to do it."

Which is a very different statement.