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Re:The myth of using Scala as a better Java by k__ on Thursday March 02, 2017 @10:36AM (#13774758)
It's really sad.

So many cool things have been build with Ruby, JavaScript, PHP and Python...

At university my OOP professor was all about how these languages aren't "real" programming languages, like Java or C#. And when I meet people working at older IT shops, that do Qt or Java, they all feel superior.

This chauvinism is a real danger to the industry.

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Re:The myth of using Scala as a better Java by oldsj on Thursday March 02, 2017 @01:22PM (#13776665)
How intellectually lazy of a developer do you have to be to use Java, stick with it and think you are better for using it than other choices? Wonder if your prof has ever even tried paradigms other than OOP
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Re:The myth of using Scala as a better Java by k__ on Thursday March 02, 2017 @02:16PM (#13777239)
He also does FP classes. I think his distaste was more about dynamic typing than about non OOP languages.
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