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by hota_mazi 2260 days ago
> Martin Odersky is for me in the top three language designers of our time

I don't know about that.

To me, the criteria he uses to allow incorporation of features in both Scala 2 and Scala 3 is "Will this feature allow me and my students to apply papers for conferences and fund my PhD students?".

Language design seems to have very little to do with that. As long as you can derive multiple papers to multiple conferences from a proposed feature, it's in.

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That sounds like an accusation. Could you back it up by something, perhaps examples?