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What makes this quote really interesting is that Wirth was Martin Odersky's (guy who designed Scala) PhD advisor!
by abhgh 6y ago
What makes this quote really interesting is that Wirth was Martin Odersky's (guy who designed Scala) PhD advisor!
- lmm 6y agoScala is a very simple language at its heart. Unfortunately that empowers developers to write really complicated libraries, leaving application developers in much the same place as if they were using a language with complicated features. (Most application developers can't even tell the difference - most complaints about "Scala is a complex language" turn out to be "I was using a complex library in Scala")
- cutler 6y agoImplicits are responsible for most of Scala's complexity whether you grok them or not.