[infinispan-dev] scala code in Infinispan

[Alan Santos]

On Feb 6, 2013, at 9:37 AM, Galder Zamarreño <galder at redhat.com> wrote:

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

20 years ago? I'm pretty sure Bela said this last week.

Besides, it's all JavaScript these days. Scala is old and busted ;)


-alan