> interesting. Scala might just be that. Perhaps there can be some generic
> discussion comparing Scala to Groovy to JRuby.
>
> Kit
>
I would love to have us get in to a discussion ot the merits of the
various changes to languages that abound. Show up and lets have a
lively discussion!
TR
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On Apr 3, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Chad Woolley wrote:
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Warner Onstine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
jug.org> wrote:
This coming Tuesday Tom Hicks and Randy Kahle will be presenting on
the new
JVM language Scala.
Sorry, will be at work in San Francisco. Codin' Ruby ;)
I real
I first heard about Scala from Howard Lewis Ship, and just yesterday
it came up in a conversation with Bob Martin. There's a lot of
interest in the language at the moment, and I'm looking forward to
seeing what Tom and Randy have to say about it.
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On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Warner Onstine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This coming Tuesday Tom Hicks and Randy Kahle will be presenting on the new
> JVM language Scala.
Sorry, will be at work in San Francisco. Codin' Ruby ;)
I really think it is a great goal to learn new languages frequent
I attended a BoF for Scala this year at ACM OOPSLA in Montreal. Scala
creators had done a tutorial that had garnered some buzz and I was really
happy to hear about the language and the activity. I've only played with it
a bit - but I'm really looking forward to hearing Tom and Randy's
perspective
I'm sorry to hear that, as I think you will be missing out on
a very interesting session. I can't speak to your motivation
for learning about a new language but I am a believer
in the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (when applied to
programming languages). The hypothesis postulates
that a particular langua
This coming Tuesday Tom Hicks and Randy Kahle will be presenting on
the new JVM language Scala.
From Scala's Web site (http://scala-lang.org):
What is Scala?
Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express
common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe wa
