Appendix C
Introduction to Scala
Scala seamlessly integrates object-oriented and functional programming. Scala is a statically typed language that was conceived in 2001 by Martin Odersky, who also wrote the Java reference compiler and coauthored Java generics. Scala compiles to byte code for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), making it platform independent. That also means that from a Scala program you can use existing Java libraries, and vice versa.
Getting Started with Scala
You can download Scala from www.scala-lang.org/download/. This Scala software distribution can be installed on any Unix-like or Windows system. It requires the Java runtime version 1.6 or newer.
>scala -version
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