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To me Scala is not so much "post-functional". To me it is "mixed-paradigm", which in the mix as Scala presents it, is scaring me.
by cies 12y ago
To me Scala is not so much "post-functional". To me it is "mixed-paradigm", which in the mix as Scala presents it, is scaring me.
- ionforce 12y agoWhy does it scare you?
- cies 12y agoA lot of keywords; too many to remember (a bit like C++). Simple things can have really scary types, because they facilitate both FP and OO ways of working with them. A very difficult conceptual model to wrap my head arround.
- frowaway001 12y agoCan you give an example? > A lot of keywords; too many to remember Well, I think number of keywords and stuff like grammar size are pointless indicators, but Scala is pretty much at the bottom when you compare it to mainstream languages like Java or C#.
- ikusalic 12y agoI've heard it said that Scala is the new C++. But to me that doesn't sound bad at all. Sure, you can shoot yourself in the foot, but you can also design beautiful things, the choice is yours.
- cies 12y agoBad is not the good word. Being pragmatic is not "bad". But I think C++ too is scary in the complexity that it brings to the table.