Java > Scala

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/20/11 2:09 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> Publishers as well as academics were culpable in the mass mania.  A
> revamp in the university curriculum meant new books and new sales, so
> they pushed it as hard as possible.  Dietel, once a prominent operating
> systems author, created a not so great programming languages publishing
> empire out of it.

I was also in the academia, doing PL research no less. The academic 
interest was not of commercial nature for the most part - Java _is_ a 
clean language great for doing research of both kinds: (a) research that 
studies programs written in that language, (b) research that adds a 
little feature to the language and proves its properties. The fact that 
Java is underpowered has no import to that kind of work.

Andrei