Re:Scala is Not a Functional Programming Language
by ontilt on Thursday May 14, 2009 @09:10PM
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I've been hacking in Java, Ruby, and Haskell for some time and when I started learning Scala, I quickly came to the conclusion that it was much more like Ruby than it is like Haskell.
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Re:Scala is Not a Functional Programming Language
by ontilt on Thursday May 14, 2009 @09:21PM
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...not that there's anything wrong with that. I love the conciseness of Scala compared to Java and, even if it's not as elegant as a pure functional language, it seems like a great language for Getting Things Done.