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I'm very familiar with the PLT field, including OO languages like Scala and the history of its development. I was asking precisely because of your work on scala

I'm very familiar with the PLT field, including OO languages like Scala and the history of its development. I was asking precisely because of your work on scalac. Much of your code had to get thrown out/refactored/cleaned up. The impression was that you didn't understand the FP part. Your recent comments on HN reinforce that. But that's besides the point. I'd like to find out what gaps can be filled so you no longer find FP difficult to understand or use. What material have you tried so far?

seanmcdirmid 13y ago
That is complete BS, I didn't drink the Kool-Aid and was able to get the job done in a way that didn't use mega pattern matching functions, which are particularly loved by some (especially scalac) but not all. Martin also preferred lazy evaluation over incremental and reactive computation, and that was that. If you look at my recent IDE demoes (on YouTube or just see my papers), you'll see where Scala could have gone vs. where it is now. The Scala community eventually drifted away from OO, but it could have gone very differently.