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Programming Scala - book

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Mon, 13/07/2009 - 20:06 — Anonymous


Programming Scala is a new book on Scala, written by Dean Wampler and Alex Payne.

The rough cuts version of this book is released under Creative Commons Attribution - noncommercial.

The table of contents of this book are tuned from the point of view of the programmer.

The online book is available here http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/

Here is a simple illustration of XML data to string conversion in Scala and assertion of the element type.

  1. import scala.xml._
  2.  
  3. val someXMLString = """
  4. <projects>
  5.   <project>
  6.       <name>Tacos</name>
  7.       <desc>Twincling Automatic Configuration Service</desc>
  8.   </project>
  9. </projects>
  10. """
  11.  
  12. val someXML = XML.LoadString(someXMLString)
  13.  
  14. assert(someXML.isInstanceOf([scala.xml.Elem])
So, check out this online book and give a boost to learning Scala.

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Tue, 14/07/2009 - 19:32 — mukund
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The animal on this book of

The animal on this book of Scala
It's a tapir, specifically a Malayan Tapir. Tapirs look at first blush like a "hybrid" animal; a cross between a pig and a bear, perhaps. As Scala is a hybrid of object-oriented and functional programming, so O'Rielly guys think the tapir is a great mascot.

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