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by PaulHoule 851 days ago
Do you think that style of error handling works in Scala? It certainly seems possible to get right but the quality of Scala code I've worked with in different roles has frequently been atrocious, I'd almost rather dig into some old ColdFusion or PHP.

(Funny, I was downright terrified 15 years ago about ever mentioning "ColdFusion" or "Sharepoint" in a forum because I'd get contacted by recruiters about the first and salespeople about the second. I'd always tell the salespeople that we had no budget at all for Sharepoint and just had one for our dev team because you could get the license for free with an MSDN subscription)
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epgui 851 days ago
To be perfectly honest, I don't know Scala very well.

I'm more interested in "pure FP" languages than in multi-paradigm languages, because the former seem much more coherent in design to me. IMO, functional programming isn't about adding extra degrees of freedom (or "extra features"), it's about working within very well-defined and rigid constraints (what one might call safeguards).

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