On 31 Jan 2013, at 12:37, Manik Surtani wrote:
> I don't think that encouraging scala code is good purely for
maintenance reasons. If there's a choice, it should be java. Not saying that learning
a new language is not cool - but in practice people are a bit put off by maintaining Scala
code. Its not only about what the writer of the code prefers as a language: it's more
important what the maintainers of the code
> will has to work with.
Would such maintainers also be put off by new language features (lambdas) in Java 8 when
we (eventually) baseline to it? :-)
It's really NOT the same thing: any decent
java programmer keeps up with all the enhancements in Java.
What I might not want to - as an ISPN programmer - is to keep up with the language
enhancements in Scala. And I might need to do that because of Scala language enhancements
used in ISPN.
Cheers,
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Mircea Markus
Infinispan lead (
www.infinispan.org)