2cents from an ordinary Java developer

[Neal Gafter]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Lawrence Kesteloot <lk at teamten.com> wrote:
> I might here channel Neal and say that no simulation is necessary, we
> already know from Scala that transparent closures are not confusing.
> To which I would reply that by the time someone is using Scala for
> serious code involving closures, they are no longer in the set of
> ordinary programmers. (Apologies to Neal for any incorrect channeling.
> :-)

The ordinary Java programmers of today are not ordinary programmers
from a point of view 5-10 years ago.  As our languages change, so does
our sense of common and ordinary.