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Kawa does not translate functional languages into Java; it compiles them directly to JVM bytecodes. There is never any "industrial language" to style. Inciden

by brlewis 19y ago

Kawa does not translate functional languages into Java; it compiles them directly to JVM bytecodes. There is never any "industrial language" to style. Incidentally, the political issue with FP is not demonstrating productivity, it's demonstrating a low level of organizational risk, i.e. finding someone to take over when a functional programmer leaves.

yters 19y ago
I haven't research the conversion process carefully, but from what I know it converts the code into class files, which can be reverse engineered into java files. Tedious and it wouldn't produce very readable code, though, so not really a solution. Anyways, your second statement shows you missed my point. If there are translators as I described then any average java programmer can take over the functional programmers job without having to know functional programming.
- anamax 19y ago
  Huh? If the reverse-engineered java isn't readable, what are the average java programmers going to do with it?
  - yters 19y ago
    Notice the part where I said Kawa isn't really a solution? It was meant as an example of something like what I'm talking about, but not quite.