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Thursday December 20, 2007

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Generics of a Higher Kind | Adriaan Moors's personal homepage

Adriaan Moors has a new paper on type constructor polymorphism. Maybe this time I'll finally grok it...

(tags: paper AdriaanMoors Scala typing system TypeSystem language functional OO polymorphism type generics TCPoly TypeConstructorPolymorphism kind HigherKinds HigherKinded SecondOrder formalism TypeClass FrankPiessens MartinOdersky.)
Interview with Martin Odersky at JavaPolis'07 - Parleys - Parleys.com - a Belgian Java User Group initiative

Among other interesting things, I liked how Martin asserted that Scala is not a watered-down FP language to cater to silly Java programmers, but was bourne out of a decision to marry the best of OO with FP.

(tags: interview MartinOdersky Scala JavaPolis javaposse 2007)

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