Programming in Scala, First EditionProgramming in Scala, First Edition by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, and Bill Venners December 10, 2008 Foreword Martin Odersky made a huge impact on the Java world with his design of the Pizza language. Although Pizza itself never became popular, it demonstrated that object-oriented and functional language features, when combined with skill and taste, form a natural and powerful combination. Pizza's
