Scala in Action

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Cover Illustration

1. Scala: the basics

Chapter 1. Why Scala?

1.1. What’s Scala?

1.1.1. Scala as an object-oriented language

1.1.2. Scala as a functional language

1.1.3. Scala as a multi-paradigm language

1.1.4. Scala as a scalable and extensible language

1.1.5. Scala runs on the JVM

1.2. The current crisis

1.2.1. End of Moore’s law

1.2.2. Programming for multicores

1.3. Transitioning from Java to Scala

1.3.1. Scala improves productivity

1.3.2. Scala does more with less code

1.4. Coming from a dynamic language

1.4.1. Case for static typing, the right way

1.5. For the programming language enthusiast

1.6. ...