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		Martin Odersky on the perceived complexity of scala (nabble.com)
		5 points by silkodyssey on May 19, 2010 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

prog on May 19, 2010 [–]

After doing Java for some time I did a reasonable sized project in Scala. What I found was that Java was easier to learn but as I tried to do more with it I started missing simple things like first class functions. With Scala, it took a little more effort to learn but it was easier to accomplish more.

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