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#65 Rod's Gambit - Spring, Scala, TypeScript, and Chess with Rod Johnson

Happy Path Programming

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The Pros and Cons of Scala

I started that talk by copying the old idea of Pearl Poetry. So I write a poem in Scala obviously because Scala is strongly typed. They didn't need to be some code behind the poem. But like what I showed you compiled a part of it compiled and it looked exactly like a poem. And my point was you know languages you can write poetry and have pros and cons. The moment of truth will be 2018, Scala will obviously will be either the next mainstream language or it will have just gone back into its niche.

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