Martin Odersky

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Martin Odersky

Martin Odersky (born September 5, 1958 ) is a German computer scientist , developer of the current version of javac and founder of the Scala programming language . He teaches programming methods at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne .

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Odersky received his doctorate from ETH Zurich in 1989 .

Under Niklaus Wirth he was involved in the development of Modula 2 and Oberon . In his own projects, together with Philip Wadler , he later developed the Java- based language Pizza and Generic Java , also a Java extension that implemented support for generic types and led to these being built into Java in 2004.

Odersky has been working at the “École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne” since 1999, where he now teaches programming methods as a professor. There he developed the programming language Funnel based on Petri nets . In 2001 Odersky began developing the Scala programming language , which combines the principles of functional and object-oriented programming. Scala was released in 2004.

In 2011 Odersky founded the company Typesafe (now Lightbend ), which is dedicated to the commercial support of Scala and the Scala framework Akka . Java founder James Gosling is one of the company's advisors .

Publications (selection)

  • Martin Odersky: Programming in Scala . Second edition. Artima Press, Walnut Creek, California 2012, ISBN 978-0-9815316-4-9 .
  • Martin Odersky, Shriram Krishnamurthi: Compiler construction . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-71228-2 .
  • Martin Odersky (Ed.): ECOOP 2004 - Object-Oriented Programming: 18th European Conference, Oslo, Norway, June 14-18, 2004, Proceedings . Springer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-540-22159-3 .
  • Martin Odersky: A new approach to formal language definition and its application to Oberon . Zurich 1989, ISBN 978-3-7281-1732-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage of the programming language pizza
  2. ↑ 2.5.1 History, pp. 12/13. on opus.haw-hamburg.de (PDF, 2.7 MB)
  3. ↑ About on typesafe.com
  4. ↑ James Gosling on typesafe.com
personal data
SURNAME Odersky, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1958