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Re:Why Scala seems difficult but really isn’t by mark242 on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @01:34PM (#2684165)
"You made more or less my point -- but my point was that Scala provides too much; and I don't want to choose a subset, as my subset will be different than yours."

Sorry, but that's the most ass-backwards point I've heard. The language provides too much power and flexibility, and you want to be locked into one specific format, syntax, and the subsequent reinventing-the-wheel nightmare that causes most projects to go horribly over time, budget, and stress levels?

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Re:Why Scala seems difficult but really isn’t by lemming on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @02:31PM (#2684436)
Um, I think you might be over-attributing language features to project failure, there.

The language subsetting issue is a huge problem, c.f. C++. The complexity of Scala makes it very difficult to understand a lot of library code, even if you're quite competent in it. To keep code for a large code base manageable and understandable, most companies will end up defining the "allowed Scala" in a coding standard. This is a failure of the language, IMO.

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