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		dkhenry on Jan 9, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: True Scala complexity That is a nice feature of dynamic languages, however you lose strong typing. I think the thing to take away is Scala hasn't gotten the perfect blend of these two yet. You can't make that competly generic map filtering extension yet. However you can make a less portable alternative. So you make you decision on what is more important.

jobeirne on Jan 9, 2012 | [–]

> however you lose strong typing

You lose static typing; strong typing is different: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_typing

cgh on Jan 9, 2012 | [–]

Just to be pedantic, you lose static typing. Ruby (and Python, etc.) are strongly, dynamically typed languages.

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