Software Engineering Radio is a podcast targeted at the professional software developer. The goal is to be a lasting educational resource, not a newscast. SE Radio covers all topics software engineering. Episodes are either tutorials on a specific topic, or an interview with a well-known character from the software engineering world. All SE Radio episodes are original content — we do not record conferences or talks given in other venues. Each episode comprises two speakers to ensure a lively listening experience. SE Radio is brought to you by the IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Software magazine.
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Episode 62: Martin Odersky on Scala
In this Episode we talk about the Scala language with its creator Martin Odersky. Scala is a language that fuses object oriented and functional programming. Martin started out by providing a two-minute overview over the language, and then talked a little bit about its history. We then discussed the basics of functional programming. The main part of the episode features a discussion of some of the important features of the Scala language:
- Case Classes and Pattern Matching
- Multiple Inheritance and Compound Types, Traits, Mixins
- Closures
- Functions as types, "Function pointers", Anonymous functions
- Higher Order Functions
- Currying
- (Sequence) Comprehensions
- Generics
- Type Bounds (Upper, Lower)
- Static/Dynamic Typing, Type Inference
- Operators
- Implicits