Scala言語の開発に作者は命を賭けている！
みなさま、ご無沙汰です。
最近はまっているのは、「ちりとてちん」とScalaです。
ちりとてちん と掛けて Scala と解く。
その心は、言語の腐ったような味 じゃなくて
単なる朝ドラ（スクリプト言語）のように見せ掛けて
見れば見るほど（使えば使うほど）その深さに感動するドラマ（Scala座で上演）
失礼しました。
オブジェクト指向と関数型が美しく融合したJVM上の実用言語Scalaの
開発者のMartin Odersky教授は、
Scalaは確かにすばらしい言語だが
まだマイナー言語であり、所詮はアカデミズムの世界を出ることはないのではないか、
たとえば研究テーマが完結したら資金が続かなくなり
開発チームは解散するというリスクはないのか？
とのいじわるな質問に対して以下のように語っています。
As a professor of EPFL I am in the fortunate position to have stable
funding for the rest of my career. Furthermore, I would hate to have
to program in anything but Scala, I have just too much gotten used to
it ;-) This means I am pretty sure that Scala will be around and
supported in 10 years.
この言葉は、Scalaという言語を何とか実用的に利用してもらうという夢をもっている
私にとっては、非常にすばらしいクリスマスプレゼントになりました。
ではみなさん、よいお年を！
そしてHappy Scala programming!
＝＝＝＝以下、原文＝＝＝＝
From: martin odersky
Subject: Re: Future of scala
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.scala
Date: 2007-12-18 15:59:43 GMT (1 day, 14 hours and 53 minutes ago)
On Dec 18, 2007 4:25 PM, Bas de Bakker
> Hi All,
>
> I thought this must have been a FAQ, but I can't find an answer there.
>
> I want to propose doing a serious project in Scala as part of a large
> Java codebase. But I expect to get questions about the long-term support
> of Scala. Do people expect it to be actively developed in 10 years (not
> a ridiculous time, this codebase is currently over 8 years old) or will
> Martin have moved on to other interests (as professors tend to do) and
> will nobody have taken over?
>
AFAIK Mercury was the work of the group of an (at the time) lecturer
at Melbourne University. It stopped when funding for the project ran
out and some very active graduate students finished.
As a professor of EPFL I am in the fortunate position to have stable
funding for the rest of my career. Furthermore, I would hate to have
to program in anything but Scala, I have just too much gotten used to
it ;-) This means I am pretty sure that Scala will be around and
supported
in 10 years. Maybe between now and then some other institution(s)
will take over parts of the development. That would be great from my
point of view. But if nobody steps forward, we'll keep on doing it.
Cheers
-- Martin
