Programming in Scala: A Comprehensive Step-by-step Guide

Martin Odersky Lex Spoon Bill Venners

ISBN 10: 0981531601 / ISBN 13: 9780981531601

Published by Artima Inc, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Programming in Scala: A Comprehensive Step-by-step Guide
• Publisher: Artima Inc
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0981531601
• ISBN 13: 9780981531601
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Programming in Scala is the definitive book on Scala, the new language for the Java Platform that blends object-oriented and functional programming concepts into a unique and powerful tool for developers. Starting with the fundamental elements of the language, this book introduces Scala and the ideas behind it from the practitioner's perspective, and describes advanced language features that can make you a better, more productive developer.

About the Author

Martin Odersky is the creator of the Scala language. He is a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, where since 2001 he has led the team that developed the Scala language, libraries, and compiler. He was also co-designer of Java generics and the original author of the current javac reference compiler. Lex Spoon worked on Scala for two years at EPFL and is now a software engineer at Google, Inc. Bill Venners is president of Artima, Inc., author of many articles on Java as well as the book Inside the Java Virtual Machine, and the designer of the ScalaTest testing framework.