"Scala is foremost an industrial language"
In a recent interview about Scala and Clojure, Martin Odersky of Scala gave some interesting answers including the following: Q: Rich Hickey is as well-read in the academic papers as anyone, but it’s Scala that has gained the perception as an “academic language”. Why do you think that has happened? A: I think it’s mostly people who want to put Scala down making that comment. They take my EPFL affiliation and the papers we publish as an excuse to attach that label to the language. What’s funny is that often senior industrial Scala programmers get also accused as being academic. All this is rather ironical because Scala is foremost an industrial language with many well known companies using it. By contrast it’s much less taught at universities than Haskell or Lisp, let alone Java! This raises the obvious question: in what sense is Scala "foremost an industrial language"? As we understand it, Scala is developed by an academic team led by professor Odersky at an academic insti...