Category Archives: Scala

Scala isn’t complicated; it’s clever

Posted on July 14, 2011 by

I’ve been away from Scala for a long while now — a little more than three years.  v2.7.1 was the last rev I used significantly, if memory serves.  I enjoyed my time with it, but it just wasn’t the best … Continue reading →

Posted in Scala, WTF | 14 Comments

String Interpolation in Clojure

Posted on December 4, 2009 by

I’ve become weary of format of late, and all of the other formats out there aren’t any more pleasant – variadic (and even keyword or named-argument) string replacement is just a dull tool compared to real interpolation. A Clojure macro is presented that implements string interpolation that involves no template parsing at runtime. Continue reading →

Posted in Clojure, Scala | 4 Comments

…recommended by 4 out of 5 surveyed seasoned programmers…

Posted on November 6, 2007 by

In a thread on the Google Group dedicated to discussing languages hosted on the JVM (i.e. Scala, Groovy, JRuby, et al.), it was asked by a fellow named Jon Harrop whether something like F# (an OCaml / Standard ML derivative … Continue reading →

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Scala Makes Me Think

Posted on October 31, 2007 by

(…or, “Oh, Dear, Wasn’t I Thinking Before?”) As my friends will attest, I really enjoy programming languages. I’m one of those language fetishists that talk about “expressiveness” and “concision”, and yes, I’m one of those very strange fellows who blurt … Continue reading →

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