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For those moving from Java to Scala would find it a bit different to see how the classes and their fields are treated in Scala. Most of you in the Java world always complain about the verbosity of adding fields and then to add their getters and setters. Lets look at how the Classes and [...]

As a first step into learning Scala and as one who is familiar with Java, let us compare the customary Helloworld programs in Java and Scala. You might already know that to run a Java program, there must be a public class with a main method that takes one parameter, a String[], and has a void return [...]

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