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Scala programming language installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Glasser)
Mon Nov 28 14:23:23 2005
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:23:09 -0500
From: David Glasser <glasser@MIT.EDU>
To: software-announce@mit.edu, sipb-office@mit.edu, punya@mit.edu
I have installed an implementation of the Scala language on Athena in
the 'scala' locker, in the SIPB cell. Scala is a JVM-based language
that weds excellent Java interoperability with higher-level
functionality and type inference. If you've found yourself wanting to
use pre-existing Java libraries but wishing for a language with more
list-processing and closure abilities, a cleaner syntax, and less
verbose type annotation than Java, Scala may be the language for you.
More information can be found in /mit/scala/README and
http://scala.epfl.ch/. This installation has no platform-specific
binaries; all code is shell or Java. It uses whatever 'java'
implementation happens to be in your path. It ought to work on any
vaguely modern Athena machine, though perhaps I could add some more
symlinks to arch/.
--dave
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