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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 Rub.
5		-This has been the reason for its adoption at sites like Twitter.
	3	+Scala is a language for concurrent computing.
	4	+In this 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 for concurrency.
	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 these may not be unfamiliar to Objective-C and WebObjects developers. Here's a summary:
	9	+Here's a quick summary:
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12	12	|= |= Objective-C |= Java |= Scala
13	13	|= Mutable/Immuable Datatypes | Collections //e.g: NSArray/NSMutableArray// | No | Yes
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28	28	=== Why Use Scala? ===
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30		-With Web 2.0, building concurrent WebObjects applications is a must.
31		-Developing and maintaining a concurrent or multi-threaded WebObjects application can be challenging.
	29	+Scala is inherently thread-safe.
	30	+It has concurrency that is effectively built-in to the language.
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33		-Scala offers concurrency that is (effectively) built-in to the language and is inherently thread-safe.
34		-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.
	32	+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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36		-In addition Scala offers itself as a solution for tasks that typically would have involved threads in a WebObjects application
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38	38	=== Can WebObjects be Programmed In Scala? ===
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40	40	Yes. It is very simple.
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121	121	==== Simplified Exception Handling ====
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123	123	Scala doesn't force you to catch exceptions unlike in Java.
124		-In addition, the syntax employs Scala's very powerful pattern matching to handle different exceptions.
	120	+In addition, the syntax employs Scala's very powerful **pattern matching** to handle exceptions.
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126	126	In Java:
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