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Java 8 in Action
book

Java 8 in Action

by Mario Fusco, Alan Mycroft, Raoul-Gabriel Urma
August 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
424 pages
13h 50m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 15. Blending OOP and FP: comparing Java 8 and Scala

This chapter covers

  • An introduction to Scala
  • How Java 8 relates to Scala and vice versa
  • How functions in Scala compare to Java 8
  • Classes and traits

Scala is a programming language that mixes object-oriented and functional programming. It’s often seen as an alternative language to Java for programmers who want functional features in a statically typed programming language that runs on the JVM while keeping a Java feel. Scala introduces many more features compared to Java: a more sophisticated type system, type inference, pattern matching (as presented in section 14.4), constructs to simply define domain specific languages, and so on. In addition, you can access all Java libraries ...

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