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Thu Sep 10 06:18:31 GMT 2015 Martin OderskyOne of the challenges we were facing is we wanted to be both functional and object-oriented. We had very early on the notion that immutable objects would become very, very important. Nowadays everybody talks about immutable objects, because people think they are a key part of the solution to the concurrency problems caused by multi-core computers. Everybody says, no matter what you do, you need to try to have as much of your code using immutable objects as possible. In Scala, we did that very early on. Five or six years ago, we started to think very hard about immutable objects. It actually turns out that a lot of the object-oriented field up to then identified objects with mutability. For them, mutable state and objects were one and the same: mutable state was an essential ingredient of objects. We had to, in essence, ween objects off of that notion, and there were some things we had to do to make that happen. http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/goals_of_scala.html (google search) (amazon search) second |