In a conversation on Thursday, Dr. Erwig referred me to the Scala programming language. I had never heard of it before, but it piqued my curiosity because the research team claims to have solved the "expression problem". (See the paper here.)
Scala is a multi-paridigm programming language that seeks to combine functional and object-oriented language paradigms. It complies to Java bytecode or the .Net common language runtime (CLR) making integration with mainstream languages a breeze. I hope to do more investigation when I have a chance, but I want to point it out to those who are interested.
Posted by enigma at April 5, 2004 11:17 PM