Martin Odersky

Creator of Scala

Martin Odersky is a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is best known as the inventor of the Scala language. He works on new programming language concepts that transcend the split between functional and object-oriented designs.

He is a fellow of the ACM and a recipient of the SIGPLAN programming languages software award. He has also influenced the development of Java as a co-designer of Java generics and as the original author of the javac reference compiler.

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