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Why use Scala
Scala is not strictly a functional programming language — it was designed from the ground up to be an object-oriented and functional hybrid. So programmers need to choose which methodology to use, but...
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Scala, a language designed for well-structured and readable programs, is richly provisioned with testing frameworks. The community has adopted test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven...
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Capn Proto — open source faster protocol buffers (binary data interchange format and RPC system). Saddle — a high performance data manipulation library for Scala. Vega — a visualization grammar, a...
View ArticleR as a Programming Language
Garrett Grolemund is an O’Reilly author and teaches classes on data analysis for R Studios. We sat down to discuss why data scientists, statisticians, and programmers alike can use the R language to...
View ArticleThe Appeal of the Lift Web Framework
Lift is one of the better-known web frameworks for Scala. Version 2.5 has just been released, so it seems like a good time to show features of Lift that I particularly like. Lift is different from...
View ArticleA Birds-eye View with Lift
Lift is a web framework built for the Scala programming language, running on the Java Virtual Machine. Version 2.5 recently shipped, and I’m highlighting features of the framework that I find...
View ArticleSqueaky Clean Ajax and Comet with Lift
Lift is a web framework for Scala, and is probably best known for having great Comet and Ajax support. I’ve been touring the features of Lift that I find appealing. Initially I looked at...
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3 simple reasons why you need to learn Scala
Buy Learning Scala.Editor’s Note: If you’re a Java developer these days, one who is fully entrenched within the Java SE or Java EE development environment, you’ve grown accustomed to waiting for new...
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How reactive applications adapt
One of the fascinating things found in nature is the ability of a species to adapt to its changing environment. The canonical example of this is Britain’s Peppered Moth. When newly industrialized...
View ArticleFour short links: 11 March 2016
Strategic Dialogue Management via Deep Reinforcement Learning (Adrian Colyer) — a neural network learns to play Settlers of Catan. Is nothing sacred? scala school — Twitter’s instructional material...
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