An introduction to the Scala programming language by Bill Venners
Monday, March 9th, 2009“Scala is, I think, the most mind-blowing language that I have seen in the last couple of years. Incredible elegance.” ~Erik Meijer at JAOO Aarhus 2008.
Bill Venners, co-author of the Scala book, gave a nice introduction to the Scala programming Language at JAOO last year. Scala is part of the growing trend of multi-paradigm [...]
Impressions from JAOO 2008
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008By Jan Reher, Senior Developer, Systematic Software Engineering A/S. jan.reher@systematic.com.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Anders Hejlsberg: C# and LINQ
Anders is the chief designer of C#. 25 years ago he implemented the famous Turbo Pascal development environment and compiler. To commemorate this jubilee, he began his talk by writing the proverbial “Hello World” program in Turbo Pascal, and [...]
A Scala tutorial with Bill Venners
Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Today I wrote my first Scala program ever. And then the second and the third and so on. I went to the tutorial named “The Scala Experience – Programming with Functional Objects” with Bill Venners who is co-author of the book “Programming in Scala”.
The tutorial consisted of 4 short talks with exercises after each [...]