• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Aug 06 2008
• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Aug 15 2008
• BLS <nanali nospam-wanadoo.fr> Aug 15 2008

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

First and second part of a 3-part article about Scala (the third part will be
about concurrency, plus a summary), it shows some of its characteristics, I
think D may copy various ideas:

http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2008/08/03/the-seductions-of-scala-part-i

http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2008/08/05/the-seductions-of-scala-part-ii-functional-programming

Bye,
bearophile

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Third and last part of the article, it shows how Scala does multithreading
(Actors), its functional roots (the language has tons of things that encourage
to
use immutable data), plus a summary. I think D may learn/copy several things
from
 Scala:

http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2008/08/14/the-seductions-of-scala-part-iii-concurrent-programming

BLS <nanali nospam-wanadoo.fr> writes:

bearophile schrieb:
 First and second part of a 3-part article about Scala (the third part will be
about concurrency, plus a summary), it shows some of its characteristics, I
think D may copy various ideas:
 
 http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2008/08/03/the-seductions-of-scala-part-i
 
 http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2008/08/05/the-seductions-of-scala-part-ii-functional-programming
 
 Bye,
 bearophile


People without FP know-how, better start here :

http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/scala-for-java-refugees-part-1

clean and understandable Scala Intro. 5 parts Bjoern