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Scala was the first ML family language I learned. I tried to love it, but found I needed help learning it, so I turned to Haskell hoping for a better understan
by SkyMarshal 13y ago
Scala was the first ML family language I learned. I tried to love it, but found I needed help learning it, so I turned to Haskell hoping for a better understanding of some of Scala's type system and other ML concepts. Then I fell in love with Haskell.
Equally complex, if not moreso, and not any easier, but it felt simpler since it focused on a single paradigm instead of attempting to mix two big ones, and the whitespace-enforced readability and uniformity helped reduce cognitive load while learning and working with it. Great performance too, C-like in some cases with expert optimizations, and a range of concurrency and parallelization options.
- platz 13y agoyep. When I first tasted Scala it seemed great, but the having abstractions that leak less (haskell) is something I really appreciate. And there's something about Scala using traits for everything that rubs me the wrong way. Stuff like this I still find odd, mixing abstract classes with functions and inheritance. abstract class IntSeqBuffer extends SeqBuffer { type U = Int } object AbstractTypeTest1 extends App { def newIntSeqBuf(elem1: Int, elem2: Int): IntSeqBuffer = new IntSeqBuffer { type T = List[U] val element = List(elem1, elem2) } val buf = newIntSeqBuf(7, 8) }
- pjmlp 13y agoMy only issue with Scala is that I prefer the ML syntax more, given that my first FP language was Caml Light.