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Algorithmically challenged
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Algorithmically challenged is a personal blog at dcsobral.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Random thoughts of an IT worker in the stone age of computer science.
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Both you and jashkenas are missing the point. The examples you are giving are also pretty easy to do in Scala. The more complex method he is proposing (filterMap) cannot be done at all in the languages you mention, though he only uses it precisely to get the most complex kind of method that Scala collections offer. But it is also possible, and I just blogged about it here: http://dcsobral.blogspot.com/2012/01/adding…
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on “True Scala complexity ”Submitted Scala popularity as a story · 16 points
HN discussionI think being able to community add to the API docs would be very helpful. For beginners http://dcsobral.blogspot.com/2011/12/using-scala-api-documen... may be helpful in learning how to navigate the docs buuut what really helps are examples especially with scala's sometimes long and hard to parse type signatures. In general I think a site for language docs where people can add comments/examples/content would be ext…
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on “Real world feedback from a Java dev using Scala”Submitted In hindsight, maybe I should have used Actors... as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAlso Rhino has access to the JVM, which means it can do Parallel processing just fine as Scala's parallel collections[1] can be used on any of these languages. You can even use ForkJoin Parallel Array[2] implementation, which is the engine that powers Scala's parallel collections. [1] http://dcsobral.blogspot.com/2011/05/scala-29-and-parallel-c... [2] http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/03/fork_join
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on “Intel Unveils JavaScript Extension that Adds Parallel Processing Capabilities”Submitted On the road to Scala 2.9 as a story · 3 points
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