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Wikipedia goes a long way, you know? You could do a lot worse than get it from there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_%28functional_programming... The term monad comes straight …

One of the goals of Scala was having good interoperability with Java. This might not look important today, where considering different languages is ok, but it was certainly the cas…

The thing is, support for arbitrary header is there: RawHeader, defined as a pair of header name and header value strings.

There's a lot that could be criticized about Scala, but that article is a criticism of the author, for me who actually knows something about Scala. It starts with a criticism of a …

Scala has dependent type support, so, yes, it is quite more powerful than most languages in widespread use. You can look at the Shapeless library to see that at work. However, that…

I see some objective problems with your analysis: it looks more like you expect to be true than assertion of facts, and it is filled with misconceptions. You expect that mixing oo …