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Does Scala as an FP Language Suffer From Its OO Syntax?

New Refcard: We've been eagerly preparing this week's refcard release for the past few months now, and finally the widely-requested Scala Refcard is here. Go...

0 replies - 10257 views - 10/14/12 by Wille Faler in Articles

Weekly Poll: In a World where Java was no more. . .

Java is the bread and butter of many programmers on DZone. We don't think that a bakery strike would lead to mass starvation, though. We'd find something else...

7 replies - 9014 views - 10/14/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Towards Better Refactoring Support in IDEs for Functional Programming

A couple of days back I was thinking how we could improve the state of IDEs and let them give rich feedbacks to users focusing on code...

0 replies - 1626 views - 10/11/12 by Debasish Ghosh in Articles

The Pros and Cons of JavaScript and jQuery

This article was written by the Imaginovation team.  They are a Raleigh web design and software development company who uses .NET,...

7 replies - 13580 views - 10/10/12 by Michael Georgiou in Articles

Clojure: Refactoring From Thread Last (->>) To Thread First (->)

I use ->> (thread-last) and -> (thread-first) very often. When I'm transforming data I find it easy to break things down mentally by taking small,...

0 replies - 2314 views - 10/09/12 by Jay Fields in Articles

Replacing Common Code With clojure.set Function Calls

If you've written a fair amount of Clojure code and aren't familiar with clojure.set, then chances are you've probably reinvented a few functions...

0 replies - 2285 views - 10/08/12 by Jay Fields in Articles

Stop Bashing TypeScript

I was unpleasantly surprised to see all the bashing of the TypeScript language. Like “the last thing I want to see is type errors”, “all these types!...

0 replies - 3253 views - 10/03/12 by Victor Savkin in Articles

Tutorial: Getting Started With Scala and Scalatra - Part III

This post is the third on a series of articles I'm writing on scalatra. In "part I" we created the initial environment, and in "part...

0 replies - 2416 views - 10/01/12 by Jos Dirksen in Articles

Getting Started with Play 2.1 , Scala 2.10 and Slick 0.11.1

Starting from scala 2.10 version , Slick will be by defaut the database manager. In addition,  Playframework also will be based on scala 2.10  since version...

1 replies - 8961 views - 10/01/12 by Slim Ouertani in Articles

A Simple TODO Application in Dart

Dart is a new language for building web applications. Though it’s still a technology preview, the Dart platform is already mature...

0 replies - 2176 views - 09/30/12 by Victor Savkin in Articles

Choosing Static vs. Dynamic Languages for Your Startup

Everyone is thinking why in the world would anyone pick static, when you can be dynamic? Usually the thought process is, "what language am I most...

2 replies - 7695 views - 09/25/12 by Mahdi Yusuf in Articles

Why I Enrolled in an Online Scala Course

When I heard that the Coursera online platform offered free Scala courses, I jumped at the opportunity. Here are some reasons why: Over the years, I’ve...

1 replies - 3651 views - 09/24/12 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles

Drawing Grids in R

Here's an example of how to draw a grid in R and how to fill it. I did use the grid-package and its functions for displaying species cover values...

0 replies - 2135 views - 09/23/12 by Kay Cichini in Articles

Access the Twitter REST API (v1.1) from Scala and Java using signpost

If you've read some other articles on this blog you might know that I like creating visualizations of various datasets. I've just started a small...

0 replies - 2716 views - 09/22/12 by Jos Dirksen in Articles

Weekly Poll: Scala, Friend or Foe? What's DZone's Consensus?

There's been some interesting news in the last week about Scala, and we thought the community would be curious to find out just how many of us have used Scala,...

0 replies - 10541 views - 09/21/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles