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Table of Contents for Programming Languages: a survey

Haskell

Because it is so well-liked, Haskell gets its own chapter.

See chapter on chapter on Haskell

Scala

Scala is a multiparadigm language, both OOP and functional.

Tours and tutorials:

• http://docs.scala-lang.org/tutorials/tour/tour-of-scala.html
• https://twitter.github.io/scala_school/
• https://www.handsonscala.com (free chapters form a tutorial)
• http://lampwww.epfl.ch/teaching/archive/type_systems/2010/docs/week13.pdf
• https://www.scalawithcats.com/dist/scala-with-cats.html
• https://gist.github.com/jdegoes/97459c0045f373f4eaf126998d8f65dc#applied-functional-programming-with-scala---notes

Cons:

• big language
• slow compilation
• culture of punctuation-based DSLs can make readability hard

Best practices:

• http://docs.scala-lang.org/style/
• http://twitter.github.io/effectivescala/

Tutorials and books:

• http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/scala/
• https://github.com/twitter/scala_school

Comparisons:

• https://agilewombat.com/2016/02/01/scala-vs-kotlin/
• https://leverich.github.io/swiftislikescala/

Features:

• higher-kinded types
• implicits
• " Scala is completely interoperable with Java (and with some qualifications also to C#). A Scala component can: • access all methods and fields of a Java component, • create instances of Java classes, • inherit from Java classes and implement Java interfaces, • be itself instantiated and called from a Java component. " -- [1]