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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.
3 +Scala is a language for concurrent computing.
4 +In the day and age of multi-core processors, concurrent computing can't be ignored.
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7 -Many of its features and paradigms favor multi-threading and concurrency.
8 -It could be said that Scala was designed from the ground up with concurrency in mind.
6 +Many of Scala's features have been designed with concurrency in mind.
7 +Some of these may not be unfamiliar to Objective-C or WebObjects developers.
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10 -Some of its features may not be unfamiliar to Objective-C or WebObjects developers.
11 11  Here's a quick summary:
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13 13  |= |= Objective-C |= Java |= Scala