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Though I'm sad that a lot of developers dislike scala, I'm certainly glad to see some of it's* good parts being incorporated into current and new languages: Pat

Though I'm sad that a lot of developers dislike scala, I'm certainly glad to see some of it's* good parts being incorporated into current and new languages: Pattern matching to various degrees in Kotlin, now C#, and soon Java 12. * I acknowledge my ignorance in thinking that scala was the first one to the table with this.

pjmlp 8y ago
If you are curious about where it came from look into Caml Light, ML and Miranda.
mjburgess 8y ago
Its fair to call it the first substantive attempt to integrate a mainstream OO language with traditionally FP ideas. That's a big part of the story here.