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Scala on LtU

A few interesting tidbits from the Scala world:

Matt Hellige mentioned a relatively new (new to me, anyway) paper by Odersky and Zenger: Scalable Component Abstractions; from which I learned:
(a) that Google has an office in Switzerland; and (b) that Zenger works there.
Kannan Goundan mentioned Scala's Automatic Closure Construction feature, aka implicit lambdas. Cool.

Having worked pretty exclusively with Ruby for the past couple of months, I'm finding ways in which it reminds me more of Scala than of Python. It's probably the blocks.
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