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1	1	=== What is Scala? ===
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3		-Scala is a modern language not unlike Groovy.
4		-It is said to be more powerful and faster than Groovy or Ruby.
5		-This's been the reason for its adoption at sites like Twitter.
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7	7	Scala is a language for concurrent computing.
8		-In the day and age of multi-core processors, concurrent computing is not something that can be ignored.
	4	+In the day and age of multi-core processors, concurrent computing can't be ignored.
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10	10	Many of Scala's features have been designed with concurrency in mind.
11	11	Some of these may not be unfamiliar to Objective-C or WebObjects developers.
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31	31	=== Why Use Scala? ===
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33		-Developing and maintaining a concurrent or multi-threaded WebObjects application can be challenging.
	29	+Scala is inherently thread-safe.
	30	+Because of the lack of static variables developers don't need to worry about synchronising access to mutable shared data.
	31	+It has concurrency that is effectively built-in to the language.
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35		-The lack of static variables means that Scala is inherently thread-safe.
36		-It has concurrency that is effectively built-in to the language in the form of Actors.
	33	+So for WebObjects developers, Scala offers itself as a powerful, safe and easy-to-use solution for concurrent applications. (In other words, Scala Actors can be used for problems that would have normally required threads).
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38		-So for WebObjects developers, Scala offers itself as a powerful, safe and easy-to-use solution for concurrent applications.
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40	40	=== Can WebObjects be Programmed In Scala? ===
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42	42	Yes. It is very simple.