Re: So, out of curiosity.. who here IS using Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Jython, JRuby, Beanshell, Rhino, Nice, etc?

I've been looking for an excuse/time to dive into Scala too.  Lift
could be a good starting place.  Maybe a study group would be a good
way to reserve some of my time...


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On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Phillip Rhodes
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Well... doing a webapp and pulling in something like Lift would probably be
> OK.  Yeah, it means learning a framework as well, but I think having a nice
> well-known problem / domain would make things more interesting.   The one
> Grails book "Grails In Action" uses a Twitter-like app as it's tutorial
> app... we could do something similar to that, just in Scala.
>
> Anybody up for doing something like this, and learn some Scala?
>
>
> Phil
>
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Chris Bredesen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> I can see two pitfalls to doing such a hack night with no prior "state":
>>
>> 1. We get wrapped up in learning a framework instead of the language.
>> 2. We get wrapped up in defining the problem instead of implementation.
>>
>> So I guess we mitigate #1 by sticking to something that is more
>> algorithmic and not like a full-on web application.  We could mitigate #2 by
>> reinventing a blog, Twitter, chat or something ultra-well-known. No
>> bickering about requirements or functionality :)
>>
>> What say you?
>>
>> On 05/13/2010 04:42 PM, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
>>>
>>> That would be cool.  Do you have an itch to scratch, that might make a
>>> good use for Scala?  I mean, we could always do one of the "hello
>>> worlds" of projects (eg, a web 2.0 to-do list or a twitter clone) but it
>>> might be cooler to do something that somebody actually wants to work
>>> on.  Most of the stuff I think I *might* have a use for Scala for - in
>>> the near future - would be back-end services like graph processing,
>>> etc.  Not sure if anybody else would find that kind of thing
>>> interesting...
>>>
>>>
>>> Phil
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Chris Bredesen <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    On 05/13/2010 03:16 PM, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
>>>
>>>        Does out JUG constituency have any users of the "alternate JVM
>>>        languages?"  I'd especially be interested to know if there are
>>>        any other
>>>        clojure or scala fans here, as I'm planning to start putting
>>>        some effort
>>>        into both before long.  Doing a lot of work with Groovy / Grails
>>>        at the
>>>        moment, FWIW.
>>>
>>>
>>>    I've been looking for an excuse to write some Scala.  Lisp doesn't
>>>    float my boat that much so I haven't had a real hankering to use
>>>    Clojure much...
>>>
>>>    If we could come up with a mini project in some social setting like
>>>    a hack night, I might be up for it.
>>>
>>>    -CB
>>>
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