So you have most likely heard of Scala, even if you have never seen a line of code written in it. Scala is a dynamic language written for the JVM... it's statically typed, it's not statically typed... it's OO and it's functional... I think it's confused. But turns out to be quite a performer.
The most surprising thing I've come across are the numbers shown here:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=nsievebits&lang=all
Yes, the Java 6 server impl may need tweaking to get better numbers, but the fact still remains... Scala (language running on top of JVM impl'd in Java) beat actual Java (THE language for the JVM)!!!
Am I the only one somewhat surprised here? I really need to block some time to take a closer look at Scala. (http://scala-lang.org)
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I'm not really all that surprised. I think if I choose a language to learn for 08 it would be Erlang, then Scala. I might have to look into it more.
You'll probably find this amusing and right on the mark:
http://icedjava.blogspot.com/2007/12/evolution-of-java.html
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