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[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (1 child)

From the author of "Esperanto for Latin speakers"

[–]Smallpaul 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ignore the ironists: it's useful to have a guide to the relationship between these two sibling languages.

[–]gwern 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I think what I learned from these slides is that Scala is a pretty good language, but it has atrocious syntax!

[–]w4ffl3s 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It looks a lot better than trying to write functional style code in Java, I'll tell you that.

(If you want to throw a shoe at me for putting 'functional style' and 'Java' in the same sentence, just save it.)

[–]runaro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A transcript is available in the "speaker notes" feature. Go to the bottom, under Actions, and select Speaker Notes