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Re:Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? by soc88 on Saturday March 24, 2012 @06:28AM (#3749036)
I don't understand the points about Scala here. Scala has pretty much the same strategy as C#.

In fact, the "big breakage" in Scala everyone loves to cite was the addition of better collections. Just like C# did in 2.0 and now finally drops the old non-generic ones with WinRT/Metro.

The reason it gets so much flack is that Java developers want _binary compatibility_, because that's what they are accustomed to and Scala gets often used by Java developers. Java developers would target the same criticism towards C# if it would run on the JVM.

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Re:Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? by skrebbel on Saturday March 24, 2012 @07:30AM (#3749100)
Hm, hm. I guess you're right. Or, at least, I can't find any proof that you're not, so you get my benefit of the doubt :-)

I take the part on Scala back.

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Re:Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? by soc88 on Saturday March 24, 2012 @01:36PM (#3749987)
No problem. :-) If you have any questions, just ask.
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