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Scala eXchange 2011: Chris Marshall on Stairway to Heaven or “Java with Closures”
Stairway to Heaven or “Java with Closures”
In this talk, Chris Marshall -- one of the four scala gold-badged users on StackOverflow -- will broadly cover the challenges of moving from Java to Scala “in the enterprise”, pitfalls, pratfalls, and all. In a production environment, it’s not enough that your favourite language be pretty: it must co-exist and interoperate with legacy systems and libraries. Your co-workers and managers must be prepared to let you use it. It must have a useable development environment. It must be stable. You must decide which technologies to use and what counts as idiomatic style. Chris will present one journey; from wishing for a “Java with Closures” onto a path through a forest of new concepts: monoids, monads, applicative functors and folds. Chris will ask: Is this a workable vision of the future to offer Java developers now? Looking back 2 and a half years later, was any of this a good idea?
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ABOUT CHRIS MARSHALL
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Chris Marshall (@oxbow_lakes) is one of the four scala gold-badged users on StackOverflow, although he is unique in being the only undeserving recipient. He has been programming commercially for 14 years, briefly in FORTRAN and Smalltalk, then Java
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PODCAST STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN OR “JAVA WITH CLOSURES”
This session took part at the Scala eXchange 2011. You can view the other 20 podcasts here.
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