For more, take a look at Programming in Scala by the language’s designer, Martin Odersky. See ED Online 18173 at www.electronicdesign.com for my review of the book.

Scala’s libraries build on this foundation to provide outstanding support for concurrency and parallelism, for example through the actor programming model and the built-in parallel collections ...

Scala is a relatively new programming language designed to run atop virtual machines like those used with Java or C#. It is a mixture of many ideas including those tailored for object oriented and ...

If you have the skills, Go, Scala and Ruby are the programming languages most likely to get you job interviews, although JavaScript, Python and Java are the languages most used by developers.

This will return 2. But the value of the program can change when another programmer checks out that code and changes the value of x. With functional programming, there are no global variables.

Scala, on the other hand, was derived from Java and runs on the JVM (or browser JavaScript with Scala.js). It's object oriented but supports functional programming. Its open source repository is on ...

Functional programming has a core appeal for some developers, says Scala founder Martin Odersky: “The programmers in that segment like functional programming because it makes code clearer ...

Socket now also scans Scala and Kotlin projects for security risks. The platform continues to grow in terms of language. The ...

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