Yeah, now I see it was mentioned before, I didn't see that when I posted..
Unfortunately, I didn't use Nice so far, so I can't comment on speed. However, I can't say Scala code was too slow, except maybe for the compiler:-). Although Scala has no 'nullable' types as Nice, they can be emulated using the Option class (heavily used in the library). For the latter point, indeed, Scala can not inject methods into existing classes, but up to a point, they can be achieved using views.
An interesting comparison between Nice and Scala can be found here although it might be out of date (it considers Scala 1.0, while Scala 2.1 has been released recently).
Scala is a language that targets the JVM and nicely fuses the object-oriented and functional programming paradigms. It is statically typed, has closures, a powerful collections library, integrates perfectly with Java (all Java classes can be imported 'as-is' in your program), pattern matching, and much more. See also the discussion on Lambda the Ultimate.
Java offers very little improvement over C++ besides a garbage collection and several missing features ( not that these are bad things ).
You forgot the impressive standard library, which is what standard C++ missed the most at the time Java came up.
In your interface description (on your website) you have some mistakes, in my opinion. Like Dog has no "MakeSound" method, although you allow it to implicitly implement IAnimal.
So you wouldn't sell your, let's say, cars to any Romanians if some of them would crash and injure some people on the highway? Seems like that kind of logic, and it's plain *discrimination*.
In this specific case, I doubt it is even reaching its goal: I suppose them villans will not even try to use a credit card issued by a Romanian bank... maybe they should stop shipping in Romania altogether, that might help stop the few percent of fraudulous orders..
Basically yes, but that it's true for any MS application (like MS Word) that supports COM. It's not as bad as it sounds, as usually the firewall blocks those ports anyway (part of the need for web services) and also because you can configure who is allowed to instantiate those COM objects. As long as "they" don't have an account on your computer, and that account is in the "allowed" list for that speific COM object, nothing will happen.
You just did the same!:) You "forgot" to mention that the *first* citing was not at all foolish, but a balanced opinion, with which he agreed.
Anyway, I used to receive his "langalist" for quite a long time, and I can assure you that he always cites his readers. Every issue is such: it's just the style of his journalism, if you like.
As a side note, you might want to check what Ad hominem is.
If I recall correcly, WTL was never a Microsoft product. Nor is their name mentioned anywhere on the sourceforge site.
WTL has been provided on the Platform SDK as an example, or something like that. It is the result of mainly one person (nenad) who, encoureged by the quick adoption by a lot of developers, continued to develop it. He is a Microsoft employee though, so he probabily needed some kind of "approval" from MS for this move, but I don't think it denotes anything more from MS's part.
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Unfortunately, I didn't use Nice so far, so I can't comment on speed. However, I can't say Scala code was too slow, except maybe for the compiler :-). Although Scala has no 'nullable' types as Nice, they can be emulated using the Option class (heavily used in the library). For the latter point, indeed, Scala can not inject methods into existing classes, but up to a point, they can be achieved using views.
An interesting comparison between Nice and Scala can be found here although it might be out of date (it considers Scala 1.0, while Scala 2.1 has been released recently).
Scala is a language that targets the JVM and nicely fuses the object-oriented and functional programming paradigms. It is statically typed, has closures, a powerful collections library, integrates perfectly with Java (all Java classes can be imported 'as-is' in your program), pattern matching, and much more. See also the discussion on Lambda the Ultimate.
So you wouldn't sell your, let's say, cars to any Romanians if some of them would crash and injure some people on the highway? Seems like that kind of logic, and it's plain *discrimination*.
In this specific case, I doubt it is even reaching its goal: I suppose them villans will not even try to use a credit card issued by a Romanian bank... maybe they should stop shipping in Romania altogether, that might help stop the few percent of fraudulous orders..
Basically yes, but that it's true for any MS application (like MS Word) that supports COM. It's not as bad as it sounds, as usually the firewall blocks those ports anyway (part of the need for web services) and also because you can configure who is allowed to instantiate those COM objects. As long as "they" don't have an account on your computer, and that account is in the "allowed" list for that speific COM object, nothing will happen.
Anyway, I used to receive his "langalist" for quite a long time, and I can assure you that he always cites his readers. Every issue is such: it's just the style of his journalism, if you like.
As a side note, you might want to check what Ad hominem is.
If I recall correcly, WTL was never a Microsoft product. Nor is their name mentioned anywhere on the sourceforge site. WTL has been provided on the Platform SDK as an example, or something like that. It is the result of mainly one person (nenad) who, encoureged by the quick adoption by a lot of developers, continued to develop it. He is a Microsoft employee though, so he probabily needed some kind of "approval" from MS for this move, but I don't think it denotes anything more from MS's part.