[macosxnerd101]

This week's challenge is Scala, a statically typed hybrid functional-Object Oriented language. In Scala, every value is expressed as an Object. It also has features for inheritance, and a composition-based replacement for multiple inheritance. Scala also provides functional programming features including functions as values, anonymous functions, higher-order functions, nested functions, and currying. It also supports the algebraic pattern matching familiar to many other functional languages.

Scala is a compiled language, designed to run on the JVM. As such, it is compiled to Java Bytecode, and can interact with all standard Java libraries.

Resources:
The Scala Website
DIC Functional Programming Forum

[Dogstopper]

For now, I wrote the famed Hello World Application!

object HelloWorld {
	def main(args: Array[String]) {
		println("Hello World");
	}
}

I sort of like the idea of a compiled object. In this case, HelloWorld is a Singleton object/class mix instead of a class. Supposedly, this idea gets rid of static variables in Java entirely. I'm not crazy about the syntax for method definitions, but I'll get over it.