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1 1  === What is Scala? ===
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3 3  Scala is a modern language not unlike Groovy.
4 -It is said to be more powerful and faster than Groovy or Ruby which has been the reason for its adoption at sites like Twitter.
4 +It is said to be more powerful and faster than Groovy or Ruby.
5 +This has been the reason for its adoption at sites like Twitter.
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6 -Many of its features and paradigms favor multi-threading and concurrency. Some of these may not be unfamiliar to Objective-C and WebObjects developers. Here's a summary:
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 for concurrency.
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10 +Some of these features may not be unfamiliar to Objective-C or WebObjects developers. Here's a summary:
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8 8  |= |= Objective-C |= Java |= Scala
9 9  |= Mutable/Immuable Datatypes | Collections //e.g: NSArray/NSMutableArray// | No | Yes
10 10  |= Closures | Blocks (//Extension//) | No | Anonymous Functions
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26 26  With Web 2.0, building concurrent WebObjects applications is a must.
27 27  Developing and maintaining a concurrent or multi-threaded WebObjects application can be challenging.
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29 -Scala offers concurrency that is (effectively) built-in to the language and is inherently thread-safe.
30 -In other words, developing Ajax (i.e asynchronous communication) with WO will require concurrent request handling and thread-safe code, for which Scala is a better choice than Java.
33 +The lack of static variables means that Scala is inherently thread-safe.
34 +It has concurrency that is effectively built-in to the language in the form of Actors.
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32 -In addition it may offer new solutions for concurrency in WebObjects and EOF.
36 +So for WebObjects developers, Scala offers itself as a powerful, safe and easy-to-use solution for concurrent applications.
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34 34  === Can WebObjects be Programmed In Scala? ===
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