Jörn Dinkla's Blog

Jan 02, 2019 software-engineering

Fusion of object oriented and functional programming

The fusion of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and Functional Programming (FP) languages has become increasingly popular in recent years, with many programming languages now offering features and constructs from both...

#kotlin #object-functional #scala #functional-programming

Jul 06, 2015 software-engineering

Covariance and Contravariance in Scala

The topic of covariance and contravariance is explained in many places (including Wikipedia). This post is my attempt to explain it in my own words, using Scala.

#scala #jvm #object-functional

Jul 06, 2015 software-engineering

Covariance and Contravariance in Scala

I explain "covariance and contravariance" with some simple Scala examples.

#scala #jvm #object-functional

Jul 02, 2015 big-data

k-d-trees with Apache Spark and Scala

This article shows how to use k-d-trees with Apache Spark.

#data #scala #jvm #object-functional

Jun 17, 2015 software-engineering

A very good introduction to Scala

Scala is an important milestone in the fusion of functional and object-oriented programming. This fusion is not yet complete, but rather a “discovery process” that will continue for a few...

#scala #review #jvm #object-functional