>From a 5 min search on wiki... The design of Scala started in 2001 at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_F%C3%A9d%C3%A9rale_de_Lausanne> (EPFL) by Martin Odersky <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Odersky>. It followed on from work on Funnel, a programming language combining ideas from functional programming and Petri nets <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri_net>.[13] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)#cite_note-history-of-scala-13> Odersky formerly worked on Generic Java <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Java>, and javac <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javac>, Sun's Java compiler.[13] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)#cite_note-history-of-scala-13>
After an internal release in late 2003, Scala was released publicly in early 2004 on the Java platform <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(software_platform)>,[14] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)#cite_note-cacm-14> and on the .NET Framework <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework> in June 2004.[8] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)#cite_note-overview-8> [13] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)#cite_note-history-of-scala-13> [15] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)#cite_note-spec-15> A second version (v2.0) followed in March 2006.[8] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)#cite_note-overview-8> The .NET support was officially dropped in 2012.[16] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)#cite_note-16> Although Scala had extensive support for functional programming from its inception, Java remained a purely object oriented language until the inclusion of lambda expressions <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_function> with Java 8 <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_8> in 2014. On 17 January 2011 the Scala team won a five-year research grant of over €2.3 million from the European Research Council <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Research_Council>.[17] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)#cite_note-17> On 12 May 2011, Odersky and collaborators launched Typesafe Inc. (renamed Lightbend Inc. <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbend_Inc.>, February 2016; 7 months ago), a company to provide commercial support, training, and services for Scala. Typesafe received a $3 million investment in 2011 from Greylock Partners <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylock_Partners>.[18] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)#cite_note-18> [19] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)#cite_note-19> [20] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)#cite_note-20> [21] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)#cite_note-21> On Monday, September 5, 2016, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > Scala I do not think was created by IBM > > On Monday, September 5, 2016, scott <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> I did. Wanted to find out what others knew about it. >> >> >> On 09/05/2016 05:49 PM, Charles Mills wrote: >> >>> It's really too bad there's not some sort of tool where you could key in >>> some word on your computer and have it look up information about the word >>> you keyed in. >>> >>> Charles >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] >>> On Behalf Of scott >>> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2016 2:44 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: A Programing language called Scala? >>> >>> A programing language called Scala? Is this something IBM >>> created? Based on Java? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
