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Martin Odersky Alive

Martin Odersky
KindPerson
Born1958
StatusAlive
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourcelampwww.epfl.ch ↗

Designed Scala at EPFL and co-wrote javac — functional programming smuggled onto the JVM.

Created Scala

Created Scala (2004) — the FP/OO fusion on the JVM — after writing javac's generics; also designed Pizza and Generic Java, Java's generics' ancestors.\n\nEPFL professor; Scala 3 is his simplification of his own complexity.

Sources

  1. lampwww.epfl.ch/~odersky/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Odersky