Scala is a modern programming language that is emerging as an alternative to traditional programming languages such as Java and C++. Scala is a JVM-based language that not only offers a concise syntax without the traditional boilerplate code, but also incorporates both object-oriented and functional programming into an extremely crisp and extraordinarily powerful type-safe language.
Scala takes a flexible and expressive approach, which makes it perfect for interacting with Spark's MLlib. The fact that Spark itself is written in Scala provides a strong evidence that the Scala language is a full-service programming language that can be used to create sophisticated system code with heavy performance needs.
Scala builds on Java's tradition ...
