Re:Clojure vs. Scala
by dragonwriter on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @11:37AM
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> Scala feels like the Perl of the modern era: there is more than one way to do it.
Scala is definitely a TMTOWTDI language.
> However, I think there's a reason Python and Ruby have overtaken Perl in the interpreted language space: Python values simpler solutions [1]. Ruby also values a certain type of beauty over Perl.
Ruby -- like Perl and Scala -- is also a TMTOWTDI language, its probably the most important thing it inherited from Perl (the one Perlism it isn't shedding as it grows.)
So, "Ruby and Python have overtaken Perl" isn't an indicator of something wrong with the TMTOWTDI approach.
Scala is definitely a TMTOWTDI language.
> However, I think there's a reason Python and Ruby have overtaken Perl in the interpreted language space: Python values simpler solutions [1]. Ruby also values a certain type of beauty over Perl.
Ruby -- like Perl and Scala -- is also a TMTOWTDI language, its probably the most important thing it inherited from Perl (the one Perlism it isn't shedding as it grows.)
So, "Ruby and Python have overtaken Perl" isn't an indicator of something wrong with the TMTOWTDI approach.