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Re:Ask HN: When people say "we use Scala for our API" what d... by lutusp on Sunday March 17, 2013 @03:46AM (#5388520)
> They are clueless and don't know java is a programming language for lamers.

The claim "java is a programming language for lamers" is only true if portability isn't important. Portability is important. Android's reliance on Java proves that.

If you had simply said that Java is a sucky, crippled language, I would have agreed.

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Re:Ask HN: When people say "we use Scala for our API" what d... by taf2 on Sunday March 17, 2013 @11:41AM (#5389564)
I'm not sure portability is why android has java as its primary language ... For example http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html
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