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Martin Odersky

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Martin Odersky is a German computer scientist and professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne who created the Scala programming language, first released in 2004, which combines object oriented and functional programming on the Java virtual machine. Before Scala he built the GJ compiler in 1997, adding generics to Java in a design that became the basis of javac, the standard Java compiler.

Facts
Birth Year
1958 1
Birth Date
1958-09-05 1
Nationality
German 1
Award
ACM Fellow 2
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Source Wikipedia: Martin Odersky

Invented

Source Wikidata: Scala
Additional Source Wikipedia: Martin OderskyInfobox: known_for
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1. Wikipedia: Martin Odersky
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    Martin Odersky (born 5 September 1958) is a German computer scientist and professor of programming methods at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.
  • In Field: Programming Language Theory, Lead paragraph
  • Invented: Scala, Infobox: known_for
    Generic Java, Scala, MOOC
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2. Wikidata: Martin Odersky
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