Nilanjan Raychaudhuri wrote:Scala in Action is updated to 2.10. So go grab a copy
Joe Harry wrote:If I think about it, my java skills which are imperative by the way is definitely not advisable to be transferable to Scala style of functional programming. All I can take from Java are just the libraries.
Rogerio Kioshi wrote:I'd like to know: what kind of things I can do with Scala that I cannot do (or they are very difficult) if I use Java.
Erik Bakker wrote:
I don't think that Scala needs other specialised preparation than other programming languages. But I don't think there's many people that use Scala as their first programming language yet; for beginners the visibility of Java, Ruby etc. are higher, and I don't think many introductory programming courses use Scala (yet). Not sure how fast that will change