Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Scala (/ˈskɑːlə/ SKAH-lə) is an object-functional programming and scripting language for general software applications, statically typed. Scala has full support for functional programming (including currying, pattern matching, algebraic data types, lazy evaluation, tail recursion, immutability, etc.) and a very strong type system. This allows programs written in Scala to be very concise and thus smaller in size than most general purpose programming languages. Many of Scala's design decisions were inspired by criticism over the shortcomings of Java.Scala source code is intended to be compiled to Java bytecode, so that the resulting executable code runs on a Java virtual machine. Java libraries may be used directly in Scala code, and vice versa. Like Java, Scala is statically typed and object-oriented, and uses a curly-brace syntax reminiscent of the C programming language. Unlike Java, Scala has many features of functional programming languages like Scheme, Standard ML and Haskell, including anonymous functions, type inference, list comprehensions, and lazy initialization. Scala also has extensive language and library support for avoiding side-effects, pattern matching, delimited continuations, higher-order types, and covariance and contravariance. Scala has a "unified type system", meaning that all types (including primitive types like integer and boolean) are subclasses of the type Any. This is similar to C# but unlike Java. Scala likewise has other features present in C# but not Java, including anonymous types, operator overloading, optional parameters, named parameters, raw strings, and no checked exceptions.The name Scala is a portmanteau of "scalable" and "language", signifying that it is designed to grow with the demands of its users.. }
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- Scala_(programming_language) abstract "Scala (/ˈskɑːlə/ SKAH-lə) is an object-functional programming and scripting language for general software applications, statically typed. Scala has full support for functional programming (including currying, pattern matching, algebraic data types, lazy evaluation, tail recursion, immutability, etc.) and a very strong type system. This allows programs written in Scala to be very concise and thus smaller in size than most general purpose programming languages. Many of Scala's design decisions were inspired by criticism over the shortcomings of Java.Scala source code is intended to be compiled to Java bytecode, so that the resulting executable code runs on a Java virtual machine. Java libraries may be used directly in Scala code, and vice versa. Like Java, Scala is statically typed and object-oriented, and uses a curly-brace syntax reminiscent of the C programming language. Unlike Java, Scala has many features of functional programming languages like Scheme, Standard ML and Haskell, including anonymous functions, type inference, list comprehensions, and lazy initialization. Scala also has extensive language and library support for avoiding side-effects, pattern matching, delimited continuations, higher-order types, and covariance and contravariance. Scala has a "unified type system", meaning that all types (including primitive types like integer and boolean) are subclasses of the type Any. This is similar to C# but unlike Java. Scala likewise has other features present in C# but not Java, including anonymous types, operator overloading, optional parameters, named parameters, raw strings, and no checked exceptions.The name Scala is a portmanteau of "scalable" and "language", signifying that it is designed to grow with the demands of its users.".