> I encountered them on a daily basis when I was doing Scala.
Your assumption that my criticism over Scala is because I hadn't tried it is as valid as my assumption of your disagreement with me is because you haven't tried hard enough.
I had tried Scala on multiple occasions since 2.8 came out. Every time for about 1 month to 5 months. It's impossible to explain how messed up Scala is without writing a whole book about it so I admit it's hard for me to convince you. God I miss SML and Haskell.
Maybe this guy can:
Re:Why we love Scala at Coursera
by frowaway001 on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @04:08PM
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So how would you solve his "issue"? (Assuming that you have understood his problem at all.)
I wouldn't bother. I'd just go ahead and use 2 distinct APIs directly, and then after a while, I'll realize my code look more and more Javaish, and then I'll switch back to Java.
Re:Why we love Scala at Coursera
by frowaway001 on Thursday February 20, 2014 @06:18AM
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Ah, ok. So you haven't understood the problem, but wanted to say something. Great.
I mean I wouldn't bother to shoehorn a Scala wrapper on Java's array.
Re:Why we love Scala at Coursera
by frowaway001 on Friday February 21, 2014 @07:19AM
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Yes, but that's not the point of the article, right?
Why not just try Scala for a while, instead of making things up?