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The Origins of Scala
Summary: Martin Odersky talks with Bill Venners about the history that led to the creation of the Scala programming language.
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Most recent reply: May 21, 2009 4:21 AM by Gregor
Carson
Posts: 18 / Nickname: cgross / Registered: October 16, 2006 3:21 AM
Re: The Origins of Scala
May 8, 2009 10:07 AM      
> Once again, a claim that Java is way more verbose than
> another language is refuted.

Yeah. The example given is really just a case where the library utilities in Scala are better than the ones available in Java.

Still, you have to admit that closures and type inference clean up statically typed languages a lot.

Cheers,
Carson
Gregor
Posts: 6 / Nickname: gregor / Registered: August 3, 2005 4:18 AM
Re: The Origins of Scala
May 21, 2009 4:21 AM      
> As a side note, is anyone else shocked that Java doesn't
> have ImmutableCollection, ImmutableList, ImmutableSet and
> ImmutableMap interfaces? They could be easily added with
> no backwards compatability issues and would make loads of
> API's much, much more obvious.
Yes, I just realized that when I started using google collections. They are not the same as the immutable list of fan, because they can contain mutable objects, though.
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