Beginning Scala, Second Edition

Introduction

Ouch! That hurts my brain! Stop making me think differently. Oh, wait . . . it hurts less now. I get it. This different way of solving the problem has some benefits. I felt that way after my first year of law school. I felt that way for a while when I began coding Scala. What’s this Option thingy? Give me back my null! How do you get the fifth element from a Seq? On and on it went. Day after day of head-splitting paradigm changing and breaking 30 years of coding habits, I am somewhat at peace with the Scala way of coding. Yes, my coding habits were borne out of 6800 machine code coding. Talk about imperative coding. That’s all you’ve got when you’ve got an accumulator, a program counter, and an index register. I grew up through BASIC, ...