| Designed by | Martin Odersky |
|---|---|
| Developer | Programming Methods Laboratory ofÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
| Filename extensions | .scala, .sc |
| Website | www |
Scala is ageneral-purpose programming language—a language that is designed for solving all kinds of problems, not just a specific one.[1]
It provides support forfunctional programming, and isstatically typed. It is designed to fix some problems with Java,[2] and to be concise—to be able to express a lot with only a little bit of code.[3]
Scala code is supposed to becompiled intoJava bytecode, so Scala code can be run on aJava Virtual Machine (JVM). Scala haslanguage interoperability withJava—Scala code can be used in Java programs, and the other way around.[4]
This is a small example of a Scala program. A simpleHello world program:
@maindefmain()=println("Hello, World!")
