Is the Supremacy of Object-Oriented Programming Over?
I never expected to see this. When I started my career, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) was going mainstream. For many problems, it was and still is a natural way to modularize an application. It...
View ArticleBay-Area Scala Enthusiasts (BASE) Meeting: What's New In Scala 2.8
This week is JavaOne in San Francisco. The Bay-Area Scala Enthusiasts (BASE) held their monthly meeting. Martin Odersky, the creator of Scala, was the special guest. He discussed what’s new In Scala...
View ArticleRich Hickey on Testing
It was an interesting week at JavaOne, with lots of talks and hallway discussions about new languages on the JVM. One of those languages is Clojure. Rich Hickey, the creator of Clojure, gave a talk at...
View ArticleA Milestone for "Programming Scala"
My co-author, Alex Payne, and I hit a major milestone today for Programming Scala. After a feverish holiday weekend of writing, we finished all the remaining sections of the book. This morning, we...
View ArticleQCon SF 2008: Radical Simplification through Polyglot and Poly-paradigm...
InfoQ has posted the video of my talk at last year’s QCon San Francisco on Radical Simplification through Polyglot and Poly-paradigm Programming. I make the case that relying on just one programming...
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"Programming Scala" Is Now Available
Programming Scala is finally available online at Amazon, O’Reilly, Safari, and hopefully at other online and physical bookstores, too. If you have trouble finding it, just memorize the ISBN,...
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