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   7/12/09

   satijournal

   Looks interesting, but it also looks like it could be abused pretty easily by programmers who don't follow good programming practices or implement WTF operator overloading. The idea behind the Java syntax was to cut down on that kind of thing.
   
   There's another language called Fan that has a similar concept as Scala, but without as much propensity for abuse.

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      7/14/09

      reboltutorial

      For me all these propensity of abuse comes from the fact that traditional languages have propensity for an enormous amount of boilerplate code so that it naturally induces to use shortcuts.
      
      Now many real-world applications use PHP which has one of the most propensity to abuse, it doesn't prevent that many of them to be well designed.
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      7/14/09

      reboltutorial

      As for Fan, you may be right (though I never looked at Fan yet but I will) but the problem is it doesn't have the same legacy and huge support than Scala.
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   7/14/09

   reboltutorial

   If you don't believe me that Scala will be very hot this is what Groovy Language Creator said on his blog:
   
   "
   Though my tip though for the long term replacement of javac is Scala. I'm very impressed with it! I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming in Scala book by by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I'd probably have never created Groovy."
   
   macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-replacement-for.html
   
   He even claims scala will replace java !

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