This evening, Martin Odersky’s opening keynote on where Scala fits into the programming languages ecosystem.
Initial impulse: prove that functional and Objext-Oriented could work
Current state: Unifier; works for scripting as for statically typed large systems (10M+ Lines) on top of FP+OOP.
2010:Close to F sharp and Ocaml, weaker Typing+FP than Haskell
Since: all languages moved in the same direction