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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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model]] library make it especially attractive for concurrent computing. (Scala is an abbreviation for "scalable" hinting at its design goals).
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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model]] 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 -In this day and age of multi-core processors concurrent computing can not be ignored. 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:
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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7 7  |= |= Objective-C |= Java |= Scala
8 8  |= Immutability | Partial - via collections //e.g: NSArray/NSMutableArray// | No | Yes