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Agree wholeheartedly. Many of the design choices in Scala strike me as simultaneously elegant and pragmatic. It's the pragmatism which has driven me to study it
by mr_eel 16y ago
Agree wholeheartedly. Many of the design choices in Scala strike me as simultaneously elegant and pragmatic. It's the pragmatism which has driven me to study it more closely than Haskell.
This article has taken a complex example of typing out of context and extrapolated that to general usage of the language. That's bullshit. Most Scala is quite simple.
- whakojacko 16y ago> Many of the design choices in Scala strike me as simultaneously elegant and pragmatic ..and many of the ones that arent are due to restrictions from running on the JVM/having Java compatability, which is understandable.