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Comment on Spring Framework and the Cake pattern by Jan Machacek

Jan Machacek — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:06:56 +0000

D’oh!–it’s the scala-kickstart project. As I said, there’ll be a more thorough write-up about it tomorrow.

Jan

Comment on Spring Framework and the Cake pattern by Eberhard Wolff

Eberhard Wolff — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:03:58 +0000

Hi Jan,

great – which project is the one I should be looking at?

Thanks,
Eberhard

Comment on Spring Framework and the Cake pattern by Jan Machacek

Jan Machacek — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:46:25 +0000

It is all on Github (https://github.com/janm399) and I’ll upload the PDF version of the slides here tomorrow, too. (I just need to tidy up the Github repository a bit before the talk.) Watch this space.

Comment on Spring Framework and the Cake pattern by Eberhard Wolff

Eberhard Wolff — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:09:06 +0000

Great stuff! Is there any way to get the code for the library and the example?

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Comment on Scala is not ASCII art by Jan Machacek

Jan Machacek — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:27:22 +0000

Not sure what to say to that–what’s your point? That functional programming is too difficult? That Scala is too hard? That programming in general is too hard?

Comment on Scala is not ASCII art by Jaja Murksundweg

Jaja Murksundweg — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:16:52 +0000

sure u can hang on a christmas tree and eat your cake too, with a crown on your head but with a tree in your xxx .. but really how is scala the language which could be maintainable by any meaning?

function based programming might hit you hard after 3 iterations in overscaled (pun intended >) )
apps, which i m dealn with. i m not talking bout appe\al’em’all apps

Comment on Scala is not ASCII art by Jan Machacek

Jan Machacek — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:27:23 +0000

Far from just pet projects. We’ve successfully used Scala on very large scale (no pun intended ) applications. Many people messing with the same code will result in a mess regardless of the language. Scala’s mixin inheritance helps here, too. I can have people working on separate components–by components here I mean functionality rather than components in OO–and yet another person can compose them to get the desired behaviour.

Beyond that, take a look at Scalaz, a library that implements many concepts from the category theory in Scala. That gives me true power of composition, not through the tricks of the mixin inheritance, but though composition in the mathematical sense… all fully type checked and compiled into Java byte code.

So, yes, start with pet projects, but then jump in. The whole “Scala is too complex to be useful/safe” is just FUD.

Comment on Scala is not ASCII art by John Bäckstrand

John Bäckstrand — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:00:22 +0000

For a pet project, I think the flexibility and power of a language such as scala is a good idea. It seems it would be a very bad idea for a project with more than one person touching the same code though.

Comment on Merry Christmas by Scala is not ASCII art | Cake Solutions Team Blog

Scala is not ASCII art | Cake Solutions Team Blog — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:44:51 +0000

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