Scala – A post-functional language (2010)

by krat0sprakhar • 12 years ago

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saryant2• 12 years ago

Odersky has since changed his mind, he now calls it a modular language: http://parleys.com/play/53a7d2c3e4b0543940d9e536

ExpiredLink• 12 years ago

Yep, he has changed his mind. IIRC, he is now working on a Scala successor.

saryant2• 12 years ago

Dotty is just a research project. It's not necessarily intended as a Scala successor, more as an incubator for future improvements to Scala. At least, that's how it was discussed at Scala Days last month.

_random_• 12 years ago

Best languages combine programming paradigms (OOP, functional etc.). The very best ones combine type systems as well (static + opt-in dynamic).

Psyonic• 12 years ago

I assume you were referencing this, but just in case: http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/index.html#scala.Dynam...

Used quite pleasantly by Rapture JSON: http://rapture.io/jsonSupport

louthy• 12 years ago

He/she may be referring to C# with its 'dynamic' type (and Dynamic Language Runtime)

pathikrit• 12 years ago

Another dynamic library in Scala: https://github.com/pathikrit/dijon

Dewie• 12 years ago

Why? You don't really give any reasons.

cies3• 12 years ago

To me Scala is not so much "post-functional". To me it is "mixed-paradigm", which in the mix as Scala presents it, is scaring me.

ionforce• 12 years ago

Why does it scare you?

cies3• 12 years ago

A lot of keywords; too many to remember (a bit like C++). Simple things can have really scary types, because they facilitate both FP and OO ways of working with them. A very difficult conceptual model to wrap my head arround.

ikusalic• 12 years ago

I've heard it said that Scala is the new C++. But to me that doesn't sound bad at all. Sure, you can shoot yourself in the foot, but you can also design beautiful things, the choice is yours.

cies3• 12 years ago

Bad is not the good word. Being pragmatic is not "bad". But I think C++ too is scary in the complexity that it brings to the table.

wyager• 12 years ago

A Postfunctional Language

Is it a web-scale cloud big data language?

The essential parts of functional programming were all absorbed into Scala

All the "essential" parts of functional programming are present in assembly (i.e. none of them). How can one possibly quantify "essential" here? A purely functional languages has a lot of benefits over a mixed-paradigm language, and vice versa.

Scala – A post-functional language (2010)

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