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by James Iry.
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In his famous rant Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns, Steve Yegge hilariously excoriates Java for being so "noun oriented" that it's difficult to express ideas that are simple to express in functional programming languages. Scala is a language for the JVM that attempts to unify the funcional and object oriented worlds using first class functions, pattern matching, and what I'm going to call