tpolecat

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   by tpolecat 14y ago

   The problem you will face is that you have no way to verify that you haven't broken something unrelated when you make a change, because the current behavior of the system is unknowable; you can't write comprehensive tests for a codebase tha
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   by tpolecat 14y ago

   Doc continues to be a challenge, but there's a lot of good stuff at http://docs.scala-lang.org/ including an in-depth guide to collections that the author might find helpful.
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   by tpolecat 15y ago

   I have been doing Java for a long time, and while I personally prefer more modern languages I have found that if I have to load up and work on someone else's code , my life is much easier if it's in Java because the tooling (specifically r
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   by tpolecat 16y ago

   I have heard some very smart developers admit that it took them years to wrap their brains around monads, and I suppose arrows are even more abstract ... I wonder how many people on earth honestly get this stuff well enough to use it day to