[infinispan-dev] scala code in Infinispan

[Galder Zamarreño]

On Jan 31, 2013, at 1:42 PM, Mircea Markus <mmarkus at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On 31 Jan 2013, at 12:37, Manik Surtani wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.

^ I wonder whether C programmers thought the same way 20 years ago.

Cheers,

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> Mircea Markus
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