Website message overhaul

[Peter Alexander]

On 15/11/11 9:54 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 11/15/2011 1:31 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
>> Scala is also termed a "multi-paradigm programming language", see
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)
>
> Scala's multi-paradigms are OOP and functional.
>
> Yet it doesn't support function purity or immutable data. Having a
> syntax for lambdas doesn't make a language functional. I know few people
> share my opinion about that, but it seems that functional is used a lot
> as a buzzword.

Scala does support function purity (you can write pure functions) and 
immutable data (you can create data that you don't write to), it just 
doesn't statically check either of those things :-)

As you say, you know few people that share your opinion, so is that an 
opinion we want to put forward on the front page?