Chapter 1. Scala—a blended language
- Short introduction to Scala
- Insights into Scala’s design
Scala was born from the mind of Martin Odersky, a man who had helped introduce generics into the Java programming language. Scala was an offshoot from the Funnel language, an attempt to combine functional programming and Petri nets. Scala was developed with the premise that you could mix together object orientation, functional programming, and a powerful type system and still keep elegant, succinct code. It was hoped that this blending of concepts would create something that real developers could use and that could be studied for new programming idioms. It was such a large success that industry has started adopting Scala as a viable ...
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