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Changes for page WebObjects with Scala

Last modified by Ravi Mendis on 2011/05/10 02:10
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edited by Ravi Mendis
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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 Rub.
5 -This 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 which has been the reason for its adoption at sites like Twitter.
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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 for concurrency.
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:
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10 -Some of these may not be unfamiliar to Objective-C and WebObjects developers. Here's a summary:
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12 12  |= |= Objective-C |= Java |= Scala
13 13  |= Mutable/Immuable Datatypes | Collections //e.g: NSArray/NSMutableArray// | No | Yes
14 14  |= Closures | Blocks (//Extension//) | No | Anonymous Functions