[Grace-core] Scala vs Java

[Marco Servetto]

he write:
"Annotation-based code generation is nonsense and should be best avoided."
What do you guys think about this point?

On 9 August 2014 07:06, Lex Spoon <lex at lexspoon.org> wrote:
> I would add functional collections (oh I miss them so), and remove
> multi-line strings (IDEs can bridge this gap). I would move case classes to
> the top of the list--it's such a drag that a basic data-holder class in Java
> requires 10-20 lines of code per field.
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> Semicolons are a low-brow topic, but it's a fun one in that it's a rare case
> where a good PL designer can show their chops. People love it in Scala and
> Python, and hate it in JavaScript, and the difference is in the details.
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> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Kim Bruce <kim at cs.pomona.edu> wrote:
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>> The missing link:
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>> http://blog.jooq.org/2014/08/01/the-10-most-annoying-things-coming-back-to-java-after-some-days-of-scala/
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>> Kim
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>> On Aug 8, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Kim Bruce <kim at cs.pomona.edu> wrote:
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>> > This is an interesting discussion of features of Scala that are missed
>> > by programmers in Java.  We have most of them in Grace and the others seem
>> > less important.
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>> > Kim
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