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Programming in Scala, 5th edition
About the Authors
Martin Odersky is the creator of the Scala language. He is a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, and a founder of Lightbend, Inc. He works on programming languages and systems, more specifically on the topic of how to combine object-oriented and functional programming. Since 2001 he has concentrated on designing, implementing, and refining Scala. Previously, he has influenced the development of Java as a co-designer of Java generics and as the original author of the current javac reference compiler. He is a fellow of the ACM.
Lex Spoon is a software engineer at Square, Inc., which provides easy to use business software and mobile payments. In addition to Scala, he has helped develop a wide variety of programming languages, including the dynamic language Smalltalk, the scientific language X10, and the logic language CodeQL.
Bill Venners is president of Artima, Inc., publisher of the Artima website (www.artima.com) and provider of Scala consulting, training, books, and tools. He is author of the book, Inside the Java Virtual Machine, a programmer-oriented survey of the Java platform's architecture and internals. His popular columns in JavaWorld magazine covered Java internals, object-oriented design, and Jini. Bill is a community representative on the Scala Center advisory board, and is the lead developer and designer of the ScalaTest test framework and the Scalactic library for functional, object-oriented programming.
Frank Sommers is founder and president of Autospaces, Inc, a company providing workflow automation solutions to the financial services industry. Frank has been an active Scala user for over twelve years, and has worked with the language daily ever since.