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It looks like you dislike the haskell like usage of Scala, I wonder how could you then produce types so complicated/weird that you crashed the compiler in 100 l

• lacampbell 10y ago
  I never claimed my criticism was fair or consistent :P I think I was more interested in Haskell-like type driven programming at the time though. I honestly can't remember what it was. And it's not so much that I hate type driven programming or purity. I just view them as tools in my toolbox, not as methodologies or worse - religions. I still think objects are an amazing concept if you look at them through the smalltalk lens. Or if you take a moment to step back and realise that an anonymous function is very similar to an object with an "apply" method, or that a constructor for an immutable object is like a functor that partially applies many related functions at once.
  • eklavya 10y ago
    In my opinion you are mostly describing Scala. Mutability and impurity is trivially easy to do in Scala. You may see that as a positive or a negative. Local mutability is definitely easier. Complexity of Scala comes from mixing OO and FP worlds and I think it's an amazing engineering feat. It will undoubtedly look ugly after you do Haskell though.