Programming in Scala

I am currently looking into the programming language Scala which compiles to Java byte code and can be run everywhere a Java JRE is installed. This alone makes it an interesting language.

For my studies I bought Programming in Scala, a book by the creator of Scala, Martin Odersky, and by Lex Spoon and Bill Venners publisched by Artima. Information on the book at the Programming in Scala can be found at the Artima book site.