Is Scala, which was designed only a short while ago (comparatively speaking, that is) poised for stardom? Or will Clojure achieve greatness instead? There are a number of complementary aspects that ...

Using the Java programming language, developers have difficulty making Java applications scale linearly. Beyond the initial handful of processors, every time you add a new processor to your system, ...

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The world of Java application development is not restricted to just the core Java language and the Java Enterprise Edition platform. The Java virtual machine (JVM) is host to a variety of other ...

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Another JVM language, Haskell dialect Eta, has arrived on the scene, again centering on functional programming. Intended for building scalable systems, Eta is a strongly typed functional language.