Why Scala Is Interesting

[mvanier]

As anyone who reads this blog knows, my favorite programming language is Haskell. I love functional programming, and Haskell is a great vehicle for pushing functional programming to its limits. However, I try to keep up with other up-and-coming languages, especially functional ones, so of course I've been aware of Scala ever since it came out.

Comments

Scala on Android

[anonymous]

Actually, it is pretty easy to get Scala going on Android. There's an sbt plugin which creates the project structure and can compile to Android bytecode.

Re: Scala on Android

[mvanier]

That's good to hear!

Haskell can do OOP!

[ext_239222]

Haskell's overlooked object system: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ralf/OOHaskell/

"In a first phase, we demonstrate how far we can get with object-oriented functional programming, if we restrict ourselves to plain Haskell~98. In the second and major phase, we systematically substantiate that Haskell~98, with some common extensions, supports all the conventional OO features plus more advanced ones, including first-class lexically scoped classes, implicitly polymorphic classes..."

Re: Haskell can do OOP!

[mvanier]

I've been aware of that paper for a while, but have never gotten around to reading it. Thanks for giving me the push I needed to do so! Haskell never ceases to amaze me.

OOHaskell

[fusiongyro]

http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ralf/OOHaskell/

Re: OOHaskell

[mvanier]

See above comment.

Check out Mozart-Oz

[anonymous]

You might want to take a look at Mozart-Oz, another language from the academia. Part of its beauty comes from the fact that is a multiparadigm language rather than just functional-oo.

Re: Check out Mozart-Oz

[mvanier]

I'm aware of Mozart/Oz, and I hope someday to get enough time to explore it in depth :-)