15. Twelve years after it was designed at EPFL, the Scala programming language is used by more than a half million developers around the world and by companies like Twitter, Netflix and Swisscom. EPFL has now set up a center to further develop this open-source language. Martin Odersky, an EPFL professor, wrote the Scala language by combining two opposing branches of programming. "This started out as a research project aimed at fusing two approaches - object-oriented programming and functional programming - in a third way," said the researcher. Scala offers the best of both worlds in a modern, effective and high-level language that developers can use to concisely and elegantly express current programming models. The Scala language, whose name comes from scalable, is not particularly difficult and can be used for large-scale projects.
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