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		yellowapple on March 18, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Code is not a foreign language, and high schools s... Being a Perl lover, I wonder if I should actually take a look at Scala? I've always been turned off it (and Clojure) because I don't care for the JVM, but maybe a good enough language can make dealing with the JVM tolerable? I do already like Groovy (and have been using it for my day job, since it's one of the scripting options for Dell Boomi), so it wouldn't be the first case I've encountered of "I don't like the JVM, but this language makes it worthwhile".

karmakaze on March 18, 2019 [–]

The type signatures that look like line noise might be a turn off coming from scripting langs unless you appreciate static expressiveness.

yellowapple on March 20, 2019 | [–]

Considering everything looks like line noise in Perl, that might not be a problem for me :)

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