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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Jessica Kerr on Java vs. Scala, Property Based Testing, and Diversity in IT

Jessica Kerr on Java vs. Scala, Property Based Testing, and Diversity in IT

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For more than a dozen years, Jessica Kerr toiled at enterprise software in Java and C. Two years ago, the promise and intrigue of functional programming led her to Scala. When she isn't speaking about at development conferences in North America and Europe, she works in Clojure at Outpace.

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Software is Changing the World. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.

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