Is Scala really more complicated than Java?

Re:Is Scala really more complicated than Java? by joe_the_user on Friday September 18, 2009 @07:41PM (#831406)

An interesting thing about this article is it makes me think about just how natural the english-fragments within mainstream (c-like) languages are.

Loosely speaking, a c-like English would be: "For each tree in the grove, paint on the stem"

But what would a Scala-like sentence be??? "trees in the grove - paint circles on their stems"???

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Re:Is Scala really more complicated than Java? by rincewind on Saturday September 19, 2009 @04:38AM (#831795)

That might show that idioms from C got into your english, not the other way round:

"For every cookie in the jar; I ate that cookie" vs. "I ate all the cookies from the cookie jar" vs. "The cookie jar is empty"

(the last one assumes that the cookie jar was type-safe and contained nothing but cookies)

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