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Getting Started with Scala

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Scala is not one of those popular languages that you learn at university, so most people don't even know that it exists. However, there are many benefits or reasons for using it. Scala was born as a language with a short number of features but with the idea of doing things simply and clearly. For that reason, most developers use it for different projects, and some of them collaborated to create the recent version of Scala.

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    https://scalafiddle.io/

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Pollak, D., Layka, V., Sacco, A. (2022). Getting Started with Scala. In: Beginning Scala 3. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7422-4_1

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