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Thanks for making it clear that you have nothing to contribute to the substance of the matter except for snide remarks.

• tptacek 18y ago
  You went from reasonable-but-wrong to very-angry in the span of just one comment. Why are you taking this personally? I'm sorry, but the fact that neither Scala nor F# have ever been successfully used in a well-known large-scale project is a substantive argument. Address it! I'm not a fan of C++ either, but guess what? It has a better track record than Scala. The idea that I'm going to pick Scala over Java "because they run on the same VM" is as silly as the idea of me trying to sell management on building their next product in ObjC, because, after all, they're both generating the same native X86 code. Of course, the real costs and risks have to do with training, maintenance, community, and support, which is why we still use Java. I'm not sure if you noticed like 4 comments above, but I'm a systems programmer; I have no idea why you think I care that something runs on the JVM. I do, however, sell to enterprises. The VM they care about isn't the JVM: it's VMWare ESX. You could write your app in SNOBOL and they won't care as long as they can plug it into their clusters.