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“These pages describe the architecture of the Scala collections framework in detail. Compared to the the Scala 2.8 Collections API you will find out more about the internal workings of the framework. You will also learn how this architecture helps you define your own collections in a few lines of code, while reusing the overwhelming part of collection functionality from the framework.”

— The Architecture of Scala Collections

[Scala] [2.8] [Collections] [Odersky] [Spoon]

“On the other hand, because many of Scala’s concepts are very general and orthogonal, they can be combined in a large number of ways. So it is indeed true that almost anything can be achieved in different ways in Scala. It takes practice to discover that often some ways are preferable to others. And it takes a certain amount of tolerance to accept that sometimes there’s more than one route to a good design.”

— Simple or Complex?

[Scala] [Complexity] [Orthogonality] [Software] [Design] [Odersky]



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Scala and Lift: Quite a Pair (video)

“David Pollak maintains Lift, a Rails-like app framework for Scala. In this talk, he and Martin Odersky, author of Scala, live-code a 30-line, real-time, web-based chat application and discuss the Scala constructs that allow for such concise apps.”

[Scala] [Odersky] [Pollak] [Video]

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