Re: Functional or Not?

I'm one of those industry veteran guys, but it's the academic background
of Scala and its creators that gives it appeal for me and gives me
confidence that its principles are sound.

On Monday 24 September 2007 03:18, martin odersky wrote:
> ...
>
> Another think I've noticed is that people on this list have very
> different backgrounds. There are highly experienced industry veterans
> as well as people with a strong academic background (of course, some
> people belong in both sets). But this means we have to take more
> pains than usual to explain things well to the other category of
> programmers.

I'm one of those industry veteran guys, but it's the academic background
of Scala and its creators that gives it appeal for me and gives me
confidence that its principles are sound.

(I was just telling someone the other day that if I were starting out to
write my theorem prover right now, I'd surely use Scala for the whole
thing.)

But I have always rejected arguments from "purity" when it comes to
programming language (and pretty much everything except chemistry.)


> Cheers
>
>  -- Martin


Randall Schulz