官术网_书友最值得收藏!

Introduction to Scala

Consider a scenario where you get a paragraph and a word and you are asked to get the number of occurrences for that word. You're lucky enough to know a language such as Java. Your solution might look like this:

String str = "Scala is a multi-paradigm language. Scala is scalable too."
int count = 0;
for (stringy: str.split (" ")) {
if (word.equals (stringy))
count++;
}
System.out.println ("Word" + word + " occurred " + count + " times.")

That was easy, wasn't it? Now our Scalable language has a simple way of accomplishing this. Let's take a look at that:

val str = "Scala is a multi-paradigm language. Scala is scalable too."
println ("Word" + word + " occurred " + str.split(" ").filter(_ == word).size + " times.")

That's it, a one-liner solution for the same problem. The code may not look familiar right now, but gradually you'll have command over it. By the end of this chapter, we'll understand everything that's needed to run a Scala program, not just a Hello World program, but one that does something.

Scala's no different. It runs on Java Virtual Machine (JVM), so Java folks must have an idea about it. If not, JVM is defined as an abstract computing machine that operates on a set of instructions (Java Bytecode). It enables a machine to run a Java program. So here's the conclusion: when we write Scala programs and compile them, they are converted into Java Bytecode and then run on JVM. Scala interoperates with all Java libraries. It's easier and, of course, possible to write our own Scala code and also incorporate library functions written in Java.

Scala is a multi-paradigm language; it's a mixture of object-oriented and functional programming. But what good is it to us?

主站蜘蛛池模板: 湖北省| 龙南县| 晋中市| 原阳县| 邳州市| 阿克苏市| 永登县| 蓬安县| 栖霞市| 额敏县| 邹平县| 鄂托克前旗| 叶城县| 鸡东县| 弥渡县| 竹北市| 宁陕县| 财经| 青神县| 江孜县| 缙云县| 龙南县| 铜陵市| 安阳市| 广南县| 五原县| 六安市| 襄垣县| 廉江市| 保康县| 恩平市| 黄大仙区| 阜平县| 阿拉善盟| 阿拉善左旗| 开原市| 万源市| 三门峡市| 天门市| 临邑县| 丹阳市|