# Scala programming language **URL:** \ **Category:** ruby-talk\ **Created:** [23 January 2004 11:24 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/scala-programming-language/9808 "2004-01-23T11:24:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Robert\_McGovern2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@Robert\_McGovern2](https://rubytalk.org/u/Robert_McGovern2)\ **Post date:** [23 January 2004 11:24 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/scala-programming-language/9808/1 "2004-01-23T11:24:31Z")
> heh everybody’s talking about Scala nowadays 😉 > [Matzにっき(2004-01-22)](http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/20040122.html) (hmm good ole babel fish …) \_[language]Scala [Ruby-talk:90309]The language which is nominated so LotY (Language oftheYear) as the \*1. The kind of language which combines with functional type and object oriented. It is funny. Perhaps, the point where priority is improbable in operator, the unexpected using of def, just a little it is difficult to use in daily use, but. Perhaps you observe to the point which makes the class file of Java depending upon the person. Groovy is made to rememberinthe various point, but whether more directly progressive. Just a little it will try researching. \_[language]Soopy This time domestic language. - Simple grammar - Adding Lisp and Smalltalk and ML, the kind of atmosphere which it divides with 3 - Abundant embedded type - Pattern match - Although there is no concept of class object oriented - The language specification where functional language and object direction language blended delicately With the language which is said. LENS many influences are visible. In a word it is prototype based object direction language, but this is interesting. This and to use daily, the using and the watermelon how somewhat doubt remains, but. Reference to this language was found somewhere, it is the ? ? which is? As been Wiki of somewhere, you think, but. Postscript: Hereit was.