On 31 Jan 2013, at 12:35, Mircea Markus <mmarkus(a)redhat.com> 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? :-)
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