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Java Core JavaScala Tendencies and Concurrency
Author: artima.com |
Published: 8th May 2008 |
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A programming language is as much about a set of design principles as it is about syntax and code structure. In this brief interview Martin Odersky, creator of the Scala language, talks about design tendencies that Scala encourages, especially in comparison with Java. He also discusses Scala's approach to concurrency.
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