The first Training at JAOO 2010 was held by Martin Odersky in Scala. Scala is truly an interesting new programming language, it runs on top of the JVM, but brings so much new programming technique that is not possible with the existing Java language.
It was a truly refreshing talk, but also a sadly realization that the evolution of the Java language has really slowed down since the release of Java 5. The difference between Java 6 and Java 5 is mostly a faster JVM, that is not bad, but on the functional side of new language technique is quite depressing to see such a short list of new feature. And it is not getting better. A couple of days ago a checked out the Oracle web page of new programmatic feature in Java 7 one can see the list is short.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/7-138633.html
And what is happening the other main stream programming corner at Microsoft? Well they have not been lazy. On could right fairly argue that C# has been become a more advance language than Java. So with this in mind, I'm really looking forward to participate the Training. So what did Martin talk about. Well, the Scala language is really huge, so the talk for 4 hours, did not covered all parts, but one thing is sure. Looking at Scala is almost like learning a new language. For you out there, that have not started looking at Scala I only got one question for you:
Do you want to program Java 6 or 10? See the complete video of Martin Odersky. http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1305
"If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala"
by James Gosling, creator of Java
http://www.adam-bien.com/roller/abien/entry/java_net_javaone_which_programming
"I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming in Scala book by by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I’d probably have never created Groovy."
by James Strachan, creator of Groovy
http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-replacement-for.html
"Scala, it must be stated, is the current heir apparent to the Java throne. No other language on the JVM seems as capable of being a "replacement for Java" as Scala, and the momentum behind Scala is now unquestionable. While Scala is not a dynamic language, it has many of the characteristics of popular dynamic languages, through its rich and flexible type system, its sparse and clean syntax, and its marriage of functional and object paradigms."
Charles Nutter, creator of JRuby
http://blog.headius.com/2009/04/future-part-one.html
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