Will Java 8 Kill Scala?

Re:Will Java 8 Kill Scala? by pjmlp on Thursday March 27, 2014 @03:12AM (#7479032)

> I don't get it why people fuzz over languages without a context of tools.

Because many rather stay in 1970 era of PDP11 command line and text editors and never experienced with the 1960 ideas implemented in Xerox PARC 1970 languages and 1980 GUI environments.

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Re:Will Java 8 Kill Scala? by lucian1900 on Thursday March 27, 2014 @06:24AM (#7479485)

I'd rather experience 60s and 80s language (Lisp, ML/Haskell) than something like C or Java, even if I have to put up with a text editor.

I'd really much rather get both, I want AST editors in the spirit of paredit.

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Re:Will Java 8 Kill Scala? by pjmlp on Thursday March 27, 2014 @08:18AM (#7479867)

My point was about Interlisp, Smalltalk, Cedar and their respective environments.

A plain text editor cannot reproduce the live code experience from such environments.

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