eklavya

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by eklavya 13y ago
I don't use LISP languages, I haven't tried them mostly because I really don't like "()", but I do know they are loved by those who use them. They must be good. People say that you get used to it in a while. Now wha
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by eklavya 13y ago
I am seeing just too much criticism for Scala and the coherent theme seems to be - "I didn't take time to understand the language well and then my pride got hurt as I couldn't understand it's constructs. So Scala is shit
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by eklavya 13y ago
Mr. Odersky can you please take a compiler course based on Scala as well, pretty please? :P
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by eklavya 13y ago
I really want universities here to pick up Scala as well. You can teach all aspects of modern programming paradigms using it, while retaining real world applicability and the wonderful JVM and it's ecosystem. I use typesafe stack and i
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by eklavya 13y ago
Well I just might, for now Scala seems to be doing a pretty good job though :P Is learning clojure enough if I would like to write lisp in future?
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by eklavya 13y ago
I don't get it. Scala has all the features, it's fast AND it's easier to read (no matter how much the presentation tries to play down the () issue, it's there.) Why not use Scala insead?
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by eklavya 13y ago
The first step towards mitigating problems is to acknowledge they exist. In the end, you can fool everyone but yourself. Food for thought :)
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by eklavya 13y ago
Yeah right, he was the mastermind behind the bloody Kargil war. He is a nutcase like all the other Pak Army/ISI agents who dream about the demise of India, no matter if they burn their homeland to ashes in the process.
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by eklavya 13y ago
I think what he meant to point out was that almost none of the IITians work in India or in Indian companies and nowhere in your reply did you refute that fact :)