Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to fulfill the "code-reuse" destiny of OOP?

Peter Verswyvelen writes:

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Gregory Collins wrote:

Doing OO-style programming in Haskell is difficult and unnatural, it's true (although technically speaking it is possible). That said, nobody's yet to present a convincing argument to me why Java gets a free pass for lacking closures and typeclasses.

I might be wrong, but doesn't Java's concepts of inner classes and interfaces together with adapter classes can be used to replace closures and typeclasses in a way?

Maybe, in the same sense that a lawnmower engine strapped to a skateboard is a replacement for a car: it takes you ten times as long to get to your destination and you're cold and wet when you get there. G -- Gregory Collins