[Lift] Re: Lift and Scala for Non-Java Programmers

2009-06-13 Thread Peter Robinett
Hello David and Fabio, thank you for the quick responses. I will get David's book and report back! Peter On Jun 13, 9:59 am, fatu wrote: > I agree, I bought the e-book and so far it's an extremely pleasant > read with a very concrete perspective, plus it's perhaps more suited > to people withou

[Lift] Re: Lift and Scala for Non-Java Programmers

2009-06-13 Thread fatu
I agree, I bought the e-book and so far it's an extremely pleasant read with a very concrete perspective, plus it's perhaps more suited to people without a specific background in Java or statically typed languages. You can also find a few pearls about some features that are not covered in Odersky'

[Lift] Re: Lift and Scala for Non-Java Programmers

2009-06-12 Thread David Pollak
Peter, If you want to learn enough Scala to make Programming in Scala a good read, I'd like to suggest my book, Beginning Scala. While it does do some comparison between Scala and Java, it does so with two goals: (1) to use Java as a generic OO-ish language and (2) to show how Scala's syntax and