Writing Your First Program
In 2001, Martin Odersky started to design the Scala language – it took him three years to release the first public version. The name comes from Scalable language. This was chosen because Scala is designed to grow with the requirements of its users – you can use Scala for small scripts or for large enterprise applications.
Scala has been constantly evolving ever since, with a growing popularity. As a general purpose language, it is used in many different industries such as finance, telecoms, retail, and media. It is particularly compelling in distributed scalable systems and big data processing. Many leading open source software projects have been developed in Scala, such as Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Finagle (by ...
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