Heavy Lifting

David Pollak announced that the lift team is renaming “lift” to “Heavy Lifting” and converting the project from Scala to COBOL.

It was nice while it lasted…

Stanford on Stairs

Stanford University has a student-led course on “Cross-Paradigm Programming with Scala” this Spring. The resource list on their page has a number of must-reads, including the draft Programming in Scala book by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, and Bill Venners, and the draft scala.xml book by Burak Emir. They’ve also scheduled a guest lecture by David Pollak of lift fame.

To jump nearly to the other side of the continent, I hear rumors that there’s a course in development at an old university near a large river.