Chapter 1. Introducing Scientific Computing with Scala
Scala was first publicly released in 2004 by Martin Odersky, then working at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Odersky took part in designing the current generation of the Java compiler javac as well. Scala programs, when compiled, run on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Scala is the most popular of all the JVM languages (except for Java.) Like Java, Scala is statically typed. From the perspective of a programmer, this means that variable types will have to be declared (unless they can be inferred by the compiler) and they cannot change during the execution of the program. This is in contrast to dynamic languages, such as Python, where you don't have to specify a variable's ...
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