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Scala pimpin’ with Ted Neward

Posted by: Andrew Glover on 06/19/2008

I recently had the opportunity to discuss Scala with my friend Ted Neward for JavaWorld’s Java Technology Insider. Ted’s been talking about Scala for quite some time now and he’s the person who turned me on to this compelling functional language.

In this conversation, Ted explains what functional programming is and why people should care– he’s got some interesting thoughts regarding OO languages versus functional languages and more importantly, where each paradigm is a good fit. Scala’s definitely got some interesting features– if you are curious to hear them, then have a listen, man!

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Andrew was the founder of Vanward Technologies, which was acquired by JNetDirect in 2005. Subsequently, he served as President of Stelligent Incorporated.

Andrew is the founder of the easyb BDD framework and the co-author of Addison Wesley's "Continuous Integration", Manning's "Groovy in Action" and "Java Testing Patterns". He is an author for multiple online publications including IBM's developerWorks and Oreilly's ONJava and ONLamp portals. He actively blogs about software at thediscoblog.com.

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