# Martin Odersky

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Episode 62: Martin Odersky on Scala

In this Episode we talk about the Scala language with its creator Martin Odersky. Scala is a language that fuses object oriented and functional programming. Martin started out by providing a two-minute overview over the language, and then talked a little bit about its history. We then discussed the…

Martin Odersky

Martin Odersky is a German computer scientist and professor of programming methods at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He specializes in code analysis and programming languages. He spearheaded the design of Scala and Generic Java. In 1989, he received his Ph.D. from E…

LLama2.java: LLM integration with A 100% Pure Java file

An airhacks.fm conversation with Alfonso Peterssen (@TheMukel) about: discussion about Alfonso's early programming experience and participation in the IOI competition, studying computer science and functional programming with Martin Odersky, internships at Google and Oracle Labs working o…

74: Fancy Scala (Sean Griffin)

Ben Orenstein speaks with thoughtbot developer Sean Griffin about scala and ruby. Sean Griffin's Twitter Understanding Computation Tom Stuart Scala Website Martin Odersky's Free Class Programming Scala Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Episode 62: Martin Odersky on Scala

In this Episode we talk about the Scala language with its creator Martin Odersky. Scala is a language that fuses object oriented and functional programming. Martin started out by providing a two-minute overview over the language, and then talked a little bit about its history. We then discussed the…

1 - Martin Odersky on the Future of Scala, Learning, Teaching and the Quest for the Perfect Language

A long-form conversation with Martin Odersky about everything Scala: the evolution of the language, the future, learning, teaching, good library and code design, and more. 0:00 Intro2:30 Teaching Scala to kids and beginners6:55 Why recursion trips up new programmers11:51 Scala as a first language…

Why Scala Changed Programming Languages Forever - Martin Odersky | The Marco Show

Martin Odersky, creator of Scala and co-designer of Java generics, joins Marco to trace the full arc from Pizza (the 1996 functional Java experiment) to Scala 3, and on to his vision for capabilities as a safety mechanism for AI-generated code. They discuss how Scala unified object-oriented and fun…

Creator of Scala: Comparing Languages And How AI Will Impact Them | Martin Odersky

Martin Odersky is the creator of Scala and I interviewed him to compare different languages designs (Rust vs Zig vs Python vs Scala) and how AI will impact programming languages. • My ergonomic keyboard project I mentioned, you can follow along here: https://read.compose.llc/ • The Kickstarter pag…