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Panelists debate what it will take to get the JVM language into enterprises
The Scala programming language, which runs on the Java Virtual Machine, has made some inroads into enterprise deployments, but improvements in areas such as tooling will help take it even further, the founder of the language, Martin Odersky, said late last week.
Scala, a functional language suitable for parallel programming, has already been used in financial institutions and high-traffic Internet sites such as the Foursquare social network, Odersky said at the Scala Days 2011 conference on Friday at Stanford University, in Palo Alto, Calif....