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JavaPosse Episode 155

By tvik
This is a tracklist of a JavaPosse Episode.
Original shownotes and the audible mp3 can be found here.
More tracklists can be found here.

00:25 Prologue
00:50 Introducing Martin Odersky
05:14 How long have you been working on Scala?
06:35 Do you think Scala can be a general purpose language?
08:58 Why Scala is a much more practical approach to functional
programming than something like Miranda is?
11:37 What are monets? (?)
13:42 What do you suggest for Java programmers to get started in
Scala? (First steps to Scala)
17:16 Earliest real world examples of Scala usage
20:00 What other applications do you see as perfect fits for Scala?
22:00 Why immutability is kind of that important in functional
languages or Scala?
24:10 About XML 'efficiency' in Java
26:00 What do you think about closures in Java?
28:28 Embedding XML in Scala
30:52 What's your strategy about (backward) compatibility?
34:00 ending
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