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seanmcdirmid on Sept 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scala founder: Language due for 'fundamental rethi...

I agree with this, but I always used scala as a OO language mixed with FP features. I prefer OO, but many in the scala community were adamantly on the FP side (7 years ago, not sure today).

About OO: subtyping leads to semi unification which really complicated type inference. I'm beginning to think it might not be a good idea to combine FP unified features with OO semi unified features.

cies on Sept 6, 2014 [–]

> I always used scala as a OO language mixed with FP features

Good point! Must admit that I did not write a lot of Scala, but I always approached it from the FP side :)

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