I’ve been thinking for awhile (but perhaps not always saying publicly) that I thought E contained a lot of great ideas but they should just give up on being a full-fledged language and become Just A Library In Scala — sprinkle sugar to taste.
Now, we have the latest There was a Scala Improvement Document (Updated link) written by none other than Marc Stiegler, one of the major participants in the E effort. Coincidence?
I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming Scala book by by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I’d probably have never created Groovy.
(emphasis added)
Since I lack the time, talent or attention span to write long, well-thought-out blog posts, you’ll just have to settle for frequent, half-assed posts. Herewith the latest in the This Would Be Just A Library In Scala series.
Update: First in a series. Episode II is also available.
Scala’s flexible syntax, implicit conversions and powerful support for abstraction are extremely conducive to the implementation—as libraries—of useful software constructs and idioms that would normally need to be “baked in”...
Originally posted to dzone but I thought I’d promote it to a blog entry:
Scala teams should live by the Spider-Man™ principle—“With great power comes great responsibility.”
Meaning, when you’re using a very flexible and powerful language, be sure that you...