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Presentation: Scala: Bringing Future Languages to the JVM

| by Ryan Slobojan on Mar 27, 2008. Estimated reading time: less than one minute |

In this presentation, Lex Spoon discusses the Scala programming language. Topics covered include the origin of Scala, the philosophy behind Scala, the Scala feature set, Object-Oriented and Functional programming in Scala, examples of Scala code, writing DSLs, how Scala is converted into Java, Scala performance, Abstract Data Types, unapply, actors and partial functions.

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Really interesting talk. Unfortunately... by Ole Friis

...the show stops abruptly after 32:46 of video. I guess I have to learn the rest of Scala by doing some manual reading, then :-)

Anyway, Scala really looks intriguing.
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Re: Really interesting talk. Unfortunately... by Ole Friis

Ah, now it works, and as the InfoQ guys said, I probably had a connection hickup. Excellent!
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Very interesting talk by Michael G

First time I have got the feeling that my functional programming courses at university were good invested time. :-)
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Re: Very interesting talk by Michael G

Well, should add English courses.
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podcast by phil swenson

You guys should 1) have an audio only version 2) set up a podcast for them.

Very few people want to sit and watch a 44 min interview. But I wouldn't mind downloading it and listening while I work out or drive....
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Re: podcast by Baruch Sadogursky

+1 for that.
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Re: podcast by Ilya Boyandin

+1 for podcasts
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Re: podcast by Oliver Hernàndez Valls

+1 for video downloading on a free format
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Dissapointed with media delivery format/support by jonathan wolter

I'm on OS X behind broadband and the playback stops at about the 3 minute mark. Sure would like to download it in a format that is independent of this flash player.

Or, why not syndicate the content on google video (with mp4 download support), etc simultaneously. I bet it would do more good for your brand recognition than cost you in pageviews.
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Re: podcast by Cai Ray

I found out that audio presentations have provided download links, but video presentations have not.
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