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Re:Clojure vs. Scala by Sssnake on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @02:24PM (#6960722)
You should try haskell sometime, their version of collections is much better. Complaints about cabal are of the same nature as complaints about every package manager "hey I tried to do something that can't be done and it said it can't be done". Having used all three languages, I still use haskell daily, I would use clojure again if demanded without complaint, and I would never in a million years consider touching scala again, ever.
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Re:Clojure vs. Scala by frowaway001 on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @06:12PM (#6961498)
The last time I looked chaining collection operations still required unnecessary boilerplate and was not even the default way to use collections. Did they fix that? As far as I know, they didn't.

Additionally, it seems that moving from lists to a different collection type still involves rewriting your whole code due to the insane idea of using different functions by default (fmap/map, mempty/[], mappend/++).

I just don't have to deal with any of these design mistakes in Scala. Having sane defaults and stuff that "just works" consistently are a huge benefit.

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Re:Clojure vs. Scala by Sssnake on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @09:34PM (#6961962)
>The last time I looked chaining collection operations still required unnecessary boilerplate and was not even the default way to use collections. Did they fix that?

I can't even imagine what you are talking about, so I can't say if they "fixed it" or not.

>Additionally, it seems that moving from lists to a different collection type still involves rewriting your whole code due to the insane idea of using different functions by default

"I did something dumb and now I don't like it". So, don't do it? Why were you using map in the first place?

>I just don't have to deal with any of these design mistakes in Scala

I don't have to deal with them in haskell either. But I do have to deal with the hundreds of other mistakes scala made if I use it.

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