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 [...]
Functional programming – an emerging trend
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Functional programming languages (FPL) has been around for many years. They can be traced as far back as the late 1950’s with the advent of LISP, and even further back if you consider the theoretical work which precedes them, and today there are a plethora of FPL’s. Yet we do not encounter them very often [...]