Re: Scala newbie.

> I think this is a common case for many FP folks who avoided Java but had
> come over for Scala.  Furthermore, I see an opening for a book called,
> roughly, "Java and its Ecosystem for Scala lovers."  E.g., "thanks" to some
> Scala projects I got first, I learned Maven and found it very useful.
>  Thanks to IRC #scala folks, I've heard about IDEA and found it the best IDE
> I used in a long time, and  supports Scala so well already, and is in fact
> an excellent Maven GUI.  Maven allows to plug in various Java libraries and
> makes their discovery and usage super easy.   Scala is the best thing which
> happened to Java in a long time!
>
> Cheers,
> Alexy
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