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June 11, 2006

'A Brief History of Scala' Article Available

Posted: 2006-06-11 23:50:00

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Martin Odersky has written an article entitled 'A Brief History of Scala'. Scala is a statically typed, extensible, multi-paradigm language, offering object-oriented and functional capabilities.

The article gives some background into Prof. Odersky's past work, including his involvement with languages such as Funnel and the Pizza and GJ extensions to Java. It continues to briefly describe the design goals of Scala, as well as the existing implementations and the state of the Scala community.