<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 31 Jan 2013, at 12:47, Bela Ban wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">On 1/31/13 1:37 PM, Manik Surtani wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 31 Jan 2013, at 12:35, Mircea Markus <<a href="mailto:mmarkus@redhat.com">mmarkus@redhat.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><<a href="mailto:mmarkus@redhat.com">mailto:mmarkus@redhat.com</a>>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I don't think that encouraging scala code is good purely for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">maintenance reasons. If there's a choice, it should be java. Not<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">saying that learning a new language is not cool - but in practice<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">people are a bit put off by maintaining Scala code. Its not only<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">about what the writer of the code prefers as a language: it's more<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">important what the maintainers of the code<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">will has to work with.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Would such maintainers also be put off by new language features<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(lambdas) in Java 8 when we (eventually) baseline to it? :-)<br></blockquote><br>I don't think so. First, this will be a few years off anyway. Second,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>this will not pose cross-language debugging problems. And third, even<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Java+closures is still Java.<br></span></blockquote></div>+1<div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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