The Scala Experiment: Better Language Support for...
Google Tech TalksNovember 7, 2006ABSTRACTThe Scala Experiment -- Can We Provide Better Language Support for Component Systems?Scala is a new programming language which fuses object-oriented and functional programming while staying completely interoperable with Java. In this talk, I give an introduction to Scala and demonstrate how it helps solving some hard problems in the construction of component systems.Martin Odersky is a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests focus on programming languages, more specifically languages for object-oriented and functional programming. His research thesis is that the two paradigms are just two sides of the same coin and should...
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