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> Whenever somebody quotes growth numbers instead of absolute numbers, they are trying to hide something. No, it is the data you asked us to look at and it refutes your claim that …

The datas do not match your assertions: http://www.indeed.com/jobanalytics/jobtrends?q=scala&l= http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=clojure&l= http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=haske…

> foreach is insanely slow no, in 2.9 using a 1 to 10 generator and a foreach was slower than using one using primitives due to the boxing. This is fixed in trunk. > gets up in arm…

The presentation is worth reading. Scala is an awesome language whose main disadvantage is that it is a language for smart people. http://www.paulgraham.com/vanlfsp.html

Being in Aus we don't get to see many live and rely on the videos being made available. Of those I particularly liked Daniel Spiewak's "Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structur…