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edit: weirdly the parent comment of my comment has disappeared and now my comment has been moved to a top level comment and appears to be apropos of nothing. Oh

edit: weirdly the parent comment of my comment has disappeared and now my comment has been moved to a top level comment and appears to be apropos of nothing. Oh well. I'm pretty sure this predated the programming language. I can't find a source on when Scala (the microtuning one) first appeared but it existed when I first got into this stuff around 2004, and I didn't have the impression it was new at the time.

manojlds 7y ago
Ok, the earliest instance of that URL I can see on Archive.org is 2007, so it's pretty old and close to age of Scala programming language or possibly older.
- tprice7 7y ago
  Yeah I checked that too. It's puzzling as I am 100% certain it's older than 2007.
  - manojlds 7y ago
    Could be, might have been hosted elsewhere or not even crawled etc.
desdiv 7y ago
Google says this Scala tuning software page dates from 2001[0]. The page's own copyright date says "2003-2015". Scala the programming language had its first public release on 2004-01-20[1]. [0] http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/examples.html http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/examples.html [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)
cannam 7y ago
Scala was familiar enough by 2003 that I referred to it as a known utility (rather than a new thing) in a post to the mailing list for a different project in June that year. It's obviously a niche application, but I suppose within that niche it's probably still more familiar than the language, if not as familiar as the opera house. From my perspective as a Linux user and developer, one problem with it was the non-commercial-only licence which, while obviously reasonable, prevented it from being packaged in many Linux distributions. If it wasn't for that, your "apt-get install scala" might well be installing this application rather than the programming language.
- walkingolof 7y ago
  There are many things name `Scala`, for example, the productivity suite for the Amiga. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(company)
  - flurdy 7y ago
    Not to forget the Milan opera house [1]. Or my favourite restaurant in Ibiza. [2][3] Though I did grow up with Scala the company on my tv as the local cable tv company was powered by it. Now I work most of the time using Scala the programming language. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Scala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Scala [2] http://la-scala.com http://la-scala.com [3] https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g664638-d1001540-Reviews-La_Scala-Ibiza_Town_Ibiza_Balearic_Islands.html https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g664638-d100...

manojlds 7y ago

Ok, the earliest instance of that URL I can see on Archive.org is 2007, so it's pretty old and close to age of Scala programming language or possibly older.

tprice7 7y ago
Yeah I checked that too. It's puzzling as I am 100% certain it's older than 2007.
- manojlds 7y ago
  Could be, might have been hosted elsewhere or not even crawled etc.

desdiv 7y ago

Google says this Scala tuning software page dates from 2001[0]. The page's own copyright date says "2003-2015". Scala the programming language had its first public release on 2004-01-20[1]. [0] http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/examples.html http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/examples.html [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)

cannam 7y ago

Scala was familiar enough by 2003 that I referred to it as a known utility (rather than a new thing) in a post to the mailing list for a different project in June that year. It's obviously a niche application, but I suppose within that niche it's probably still more familiar than the language, if not as familiar as the opera house. From my perspective as a Linux user and developer, one problem with it was the non-commercial-only licence which, while obviously reasonable, prevented it from being packaged in many Linux distributions. If it wasn't for that, your "apt-get install scala" might well be installing this application rather than the programming language.

walkingolof 7y ago
There are many things name `Scala`, for example, the productivity suite for the Amiga. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(company)
- flurdy 7y ago
  Not to forget the Milan opera house [1]. Or my favourite restaurant in Ibiza. [2][3] Though I did grow up with Scala the company on my tv as the local cable tv company was powered by it. Now I work most of the time using Scala the programming language. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Scala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Scala [2] http://la-scala.com http://la-scala.com [3] https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g664638-d1001540-Reviews-La_Scala-Ibiza_Town_Ibiza_Balearic_Islands.html https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g664638-d100...