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Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:21:30 -0500

Java and Scala are on the same level. Look at GridGain 3.0, for example... Even hard core functional programming can be pretty close to Scala. Scala, of course, is still generation ahead of Java in most respects...

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Java's the machine language. Other languages are the real goal?

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:59:52 -0500

Surely Bytecode is the JVM's machine language. I would be more inclined to view Java as the JVM's C in the great scheme of things.

Java's the machine language. Other languages are the real goal?

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:22:50 -0500

Russ Miles, on twitter this morning, said "Java: in many ways the machine language of the JVM. Scala takes things much, much further, introducing power with...