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1 1  === What is Scala? ===
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3 -[[Scala>>http://www.scala-lang.org/]] is a modern, multi-paradigm JVM language that is most often compared to [[Groovy>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_(programming_language)]], [[Clojure>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure]] or [[Erlang>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)]]. Its [[functional language>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming]] foundations and built-in Actors library makes it especially attractive for concurrent computing. (Scala is an abbreviation for "scalable" hinting at its design goals). In this day and age of multi-core processors concurrent computing can not be ignored.
3 +[[Scala>>http://www.scala-lang.org/]] is a modern, multi-paradigm JVM language that is most often compared to [[Groovy>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_(programming_language)]], [[Clojure>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure]] or [[Erlang>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)]]. Its [[functional language>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming]] foundations and built-in Actors library make it especially attractive for concurrent computing. (Scala is an abbreviation for "scalable" hinting at its design goals). In this day and age of multi-core processors concurrent computing can not be ignored.
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5 5  Many of the design features of Scala have been chosen with concurrency in mind, some of which may not be unfamiliar to Objective-C or WebObjects developers. Here's a summary:
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62 62  {{code}}
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64 -object Talent extends EOGenericRecord {
64 +object Talent {
65 65   val ENTITY_NAME = "Talent"
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67 67  {{/code}}