Stories about: Scala

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An interview with ColdFusion co-creator Jeremy Allaire 05 November, 2009 15:32

As part of our series of investigations into interesting programming languages Computerworld talks to one of the creators of web development tool, ColdFusion – Jeremy Allaire.
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The A-Z of Programming Languages: Arduino's Tom Igoe 12 October, 2009 12:14

Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into interesting programming languages. This time around we speak with Arduino's Tom Igoe.
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An inteview with Brian Kernighan, co-developer of AWK and AMPL 06 October, 2009 12:54

Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into interesting programming languages. In the past we have spoken to Larry Wall, creator of the Perl programming language, Don Syme, senior researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, who developed F#, Simon Peyton-Jones on the development of Haskell, Alfred v. Aho of AWK fame, S. Tucker Taft on the Ada 1995 and 2005 revisions, Microsoft about its server-side script engine ASP, Chet Ramey about his experiences maintaining Bash, Bjarne Stroustrup of C++ fame and Charles H. Moore about the design and development of Forth.
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The A-Z of programming languages: Groovy 14 September, 2009 12:13

Groovy’s Project Manager, Guillaume Laforge, tells the development story behind this language and why he thinks it is grooving its way into enterprises around the world.
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A-Z of Programming Languages: Scala 18 August, 2009 11:32

A Twitter developer has said that Scala could become the language of choice of the modern Web 2.0 startup. LinkedIn also uses the language. So do with many other big corporate names including Sony Pictures, EDF and SAP. Martin Odersky tells us about Scala’s history, its future and what makes it so interesting.
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Java yields to other languages on the Java Virtual Machine 17 July, 2009 08:20

Move over, Java. There's more to the Java Virtual Machine than just the Java language these days -- and the field of languages for JVM is growing.
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Google lauds the Web as programming model 28 May, 2009 07:44

Preaching the Web as the new programming model, Google officials lauded several technologies, including 3D browser capabilities and an ability to easily add Google applications to Web pages, at the Google I/O conference on Wednesday.
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Programming language renaissance hailed 28 March, 2008 12:46

Programmers were urged to expand their horizons Thursday at TheServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas.
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The state of open source: Visions of utopia 27 March, 2008 10:33

11 leaders from the open source and vendor communities discuss the current open source climate and outline the challenges and opportunities ahead.
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The state of open source: Zack Urlocker, MySQL 26 March, 2008 08:12

Viewed by many as open source's most compelling business play in the past few years, MySQL made waves this year, accepting Sun Microsystems' US$1 billion acquisition bid, opening eyes on Wall Street as to open source's potential to shake up the software industry in the process.
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Sun offers potpourri of open-source plans 17 October, 2007 05:19

Sun offered informational updates Monday on several ongoing efforts in the open-source arena, including product plans for the OpenSolaris version of the Solaris OS, Java, and the GlassFish application server.