Roundup: Scala for Java Refugees. 13 Feb 2008 To be honest, I’m somewhat kicking myself for writing this post.
As I’ve said many times: roundup posts are for people who are too lazy to write real content. I can’t tell you how many blogs I’ve come across which have a roundup-to-post ratio of easily 3:1. You know it’s a bad sign when sites start having roundups of their roundups… Meta-roundups aside, I decided (after much deliberation) that a single post linking to all six parts of the series would be useful to one or two people. Time is the New Memory. Time is the New MemoryA Conversation with Rich Hickeyby Bill VennersSeptember 21, 2009 In his keynote at the JVM Languages Summit last week, Rich Hickey, the creator of the Clojure programming language, suggested that the problems people associate with shared state are problems of time.
He compared the lack of time management facilities in mainstream object-oriented languages today to the lack of memory management in C++. Scala for C# Developers.