Why Scala seems difficult but really isn’t

Re:Why Scala seems difficult but really isn’t by bad_user on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @09:15AM (#2682950)

    small team could build something fiendishly clever in
    Scala that's maybe 2,000 lines of code that does the
    work of 20,000 lines of code

I actually provoke you to pick a language, any language other than assembler, and write a piece of software with both languages, of reasonable complexity (no micro-benchmarks shit), as concise as you can.

If the source-code in Scala is at least 3 times smaller, I'll buy you a drink.

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Re:Why Scala seems difficult but really isn’t by jeswin on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @11:06AM (#2683426)

I work as a consultant in Bangalore; most of my daytime job involves reviewing projects (for code quality). I see about 8-10 projects a month (Java/.Net).

There are projects which are just bad, let's ignore those. Those which can be classified as maintainable, are well structured and object-oriented, they abstract implementations behind interfaces etc.

But, they are verbose. I could probably accomplish the same thing in about 3x less code using FP/declarative constructs.

Reminds me of Yegge's Kingdom of Nouns; it is a funny read if you haven't read it yet.

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Re:Why Scala seems difficult but really isn’t by TylerE on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @10:09AM (#2683153)

COBOL?

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