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I first encountered the Scala language in 2010. I was working on a graduate training programme for an international banking organisation when I was asked to give an hour talk to the graduates on Scala. At that point I had heard the name mentioned but had no idea what it was. I therefore did some reading, installed the IDE being used and tried out some examples—and was hooked.
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Hunt, J. (2014). Scala Background. In: A Beginner's Guide to Scala, Object Orientation and Functional Programming. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06776-6_6
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