I came across this post by Al on Tumblr - my idea of TV - not long back and was the first person to reblog it there. Yes!
It is an honest, relatable, inspiring post. And I said so in a comment.
To those of you who might not know - I do have a global audience - Al Wenger is a top notch VC in New York City.
I promptly created a Scala page. This is still early. I first blogged about Scala back in May, and Google still shows only a handful of websites dedicated to Scala. Wow.
Al, I am with you now.
Wait, did I just say a line from The Godfather?
I could hardly call Al a friend, we have met in person but once. And I am strict about using the family metaphor. Some weirdos in Kentucky spoiled it for me.
Al to me is a VC and a blogger, and that is good enough for me.
One small but not unimportant fact I learned about Al during my one meeting with him is that he is Mayor of some horse place upstate.
How My Grandfather Became Mayor The First Time
Scala - Wikipedia: Scala stands for "scalable language", signifying that it is designed to grow with the demands of its users..... Scala code can call Java libraries (or .NET libraries in the .NET implementation). ..... Scala's operational characteristics are the same as Java's. .... Scala is a pure object-oriented language in the sense that every value is an object. .... In April 2009 Twitter announced they had switched large portions of their backend from Ruby to Scala and intended to convert the rest. In addition Foursquare uses Scala and Lift
