Re: Why Scala?

2014-06-06 Thread Nicholas Chammas
of something small, and that the choice of programming language may not always have been made consciously at the outset. But pretending that it was, why is Scala the preferred language of Spark? Nick -- View this message in context: Why Scala? http://apache-spark

Re: Why Scala?

2014-06-04 Thread John Omernik
may not always have been made consciously at the outset. But pretending that it was, why is Scala the preferred language of Spark? Nick -- View this message in context: Why Scala? http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Why-Scala-tp6536.html Sent

Re: Why Scala?

2014-06-04 Thread Matei Zaharia
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Re: Why Scala?

2014-06-04 Thread John Omernik
, and that the choice of programming language may not always have been made consciously at the outset. But pretending that it was, why is Scala the preferred language of Spark? Nick -- View this message in context: Why Scala? http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Why

Re: Why Scala?

2014-06-04 Thread Jeremy Lee
language of Spark? Nick -- View this message in context: Why Scala? http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Why-Scala-tp6536.html Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/ at Nabble.com

Why Scala?

2014-05-29 Thread Nick Chammas
of Spark? Nick -- View this message in context: http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Why-Scala-tp6536.html Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Why Scala?

2014-05-29 Thread Matei Zaharia
made consciously at the outset. But pretending that it was, why is Scala the preferred language of Spark? Nick View this message in context: Why Scala? Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Why Scala?

2014-05-29 Thread Dmitriy Lyubimov
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Re: Why Scala?

2014-05-29 Thread Krishna Sankar
Nicholas, Good question. Couple of thoughts from my practical experience: - Coming from R, Scala feels more natural than other languages. The functional succinctness of Scala is more suited for Data Science than other languages. In short, Scala-Spark makes sense, for Data Science,