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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Disqus - Latest Comments for Horst Makitta</title><link>http://disqus.com/people/8bf7368bdc5ca2071023813b26beafed/</link><description></description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:06:47 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Scheme is love</title><link>http://phildawesstuff.disqus.com/scheme_is_love/#comment-2753479</link><description>Maybe you should take a closer look at Scala?&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://scala.epfl.ch/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://scala.epfl.ch/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Not only has it all you can expect from a modern programming language (functional and OO-programming, an exceptionally good type-system which is statically but does not stand in the way, providing type inference, generators, sequence comprehensions), it also provides the ultimate answer to the old singel vs. multiple inheritence discussion: Traits.&lt;br&gt;And it has the additional bonus of running on a JAVA JVM, but you can also run it on .NET:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://scala.epfl.ch/docu/clr/index.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://scala.epfl.ch/docu/clr/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You will find a promising chapter "Abstractions for Concurrency" in "Programming in Scala":&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://scala.epfl.ch/docu/files/ProgrammingInScala.pdf" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://scala.epfl.ch/docu/files/ProgrammingInSc...&lt;/a&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Horst Makitta</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:06:47 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>