Java > Scala

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 03:03 -0600, Caligo wrote:
[...]
> You reacted to my original comment about Java the same way Bob reacted when
> I told him that Ford pick-up trucks suck.  If someone takes something
> personally, that tells me that it's part of their identity.  That's pretty
> good for an amateur, wouldn't you say?  But I'm glade I was wrong, because
> I've learned something new.

Excellent.  I think the moral here is that "first impressions aren't
always correct".

I will try and watch "Waiting for Superman", thanks for the pointer.


With Paul Graham and now Uncle Bob Martin doing the circuit pushing Lisp
and Clojure as the language to end all languages, everything really
rests on whether Clojure really does the job.  It is actually a good
language, I like it and use it, but I am not sure it will supplant Java
as the language on the JVM, for most of the reasons we have passed
though in this thread previously:  inertia, lack of education, politics,
management incompetence, etc.

-- 
Russel.
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