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This guy obviously doesn't know scala. I don't know Martin Odersk, but from his work I would have to nominate him as "language designer of the last 30 years".
by jhancock 18y ago
This guy obviously doesn't know scala. I don't know Martin Odersk, but from his work I would have to nominate him as "language designer of the last 30 years". That "30 years" postdates, Lisp, Smalltalk, and Forth so shouldn't piss off too many old-schoolers around here ;).
Seriously, Scala, Haskell, Erlang, they all rock. But Scala, packs soooo much in such a clean syntax, it deserves the award.
- davidw 18y agoI guess I should give it a second look. I bumped into it a number of years ago and saw the "mix XML with your code!" thing featured prominently, and didn't think all that much of it in terms of 'clean syntax'.
- jhancock 18y agoyeah, XML is a huge turnoff for me too. but scala isn't about XML. It just has a solid native library for it.
- davidw 18y agoXML libraries are great, what struck me as kind of gross is having the language's compiler/interpreter read in stuff like foo = <para> blah blah <strong> blah </strong> </para>; Special treatment for one particular markup language just seems wrong to me. Imagine if C had that for whatever was popular when it was invented?