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Graceless Failures

Tips, tricks, missteps, and minor revelations on the path to Scala wisdom.

Scala For Rubyists

Over at Coderspiel, n8han has implemented _why’s semi-canoncial Ruby tutorial adventure game Dwemthy’s Array in Scala.

I like this for two reasons:

  1. There aren’t enough non-trivial side-by-side Ruby vs Scala examples for Rubyists like myself to learn from.
  2. The author has a number in his name, and that’s how you know he’s a righteous dude.

Also, for gems like this: “And finally, code is data or whatever.”