The Insider News

• Scalable language... The explanation is lacking there, no idea what they are talking about, will give them the benefit of the doubt... it seems to say Scala is an hybrid of automatic (infered) strong typing and script / compiled language.. mm.. . maybe...
• Object Oriented, ahem, C# too
• Functional, ahem, C# too
• Seemless Java interop, well C# interop seemlessy with other C# hey!
• Function are object, well C# too
• Future proof (because async friendly), well C# is leading the charge with async friendliness
• Fun, well C# is fun

Super Lloyd wrote:

Object Oriented, ahem, C# too

Functional, ahem, C# too

Funct<T> LoggingVersion(Funct<T> func)
{
  return () => {
    Console.WriteLine("Calling method");
    return func();
  };
}

Funct<T, T> x = ....;
Funct<T, T> squared = t => { var tmp = x(t); return tmp * tmp; };

add x y = x + y
increment = add 1

Sander Rossel wrote:

Unfortunately, I haven't yet discovered if "studying evening after evening wondering how the hell to do something, that would've taken you a minute in C#, because you can't have state or mutability" is also a feature

getLine = do c <- getChar
             if c == '\n'
                then return ""
                else do l <- getLine
                    return c : l

getLine :: IO String

import Control.Monad.State  
  
stackManip :: State Stack Int  
stackManip = do  
    push 3  
    a <- pop  
    pop 

descendingSort = (sort . reverse)

raddevus wrote:

Pluralsight video, Applying Functional Principles In C# by Vladimir Khorikov and it was fantastic.

Super Lloyd wrote:

What's the point? What can it do that C# can't?

Chris Maunder wrote:

Personally it's always seemed that you can do anything with any language: it's the libraries and platform that's the trick. Async and parallelisation are awesome, but they are, essentially, optimisations.

Kevin McFarlane wrote:

the Actor Model of concurrency that was first implemented in a big way in Erlang, a functional language.