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Oct 31
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What’s so special about Beginning Scala by Dave Pollack?
Beginning Scala is a fairly recently published introductory Scala book (2009). It has made learning about coding and design with Scala thus far a pleasure. While I’ve been aware of Scala for a few months now (when I started web programming), I’ve been very busy with high priority task juggling and hadn’t made time to experience the language (or read the book). My first memory of Scala is hearing about how twitter switched over much of their Ruby on Rails to a Scala framework to improve performance. Since then I’ve sampled 14 million other web technologies 
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