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David Pollak

Author of Beginning Scala 3 - A Functional and Object-Oriented Java Language by David Pollak, Vishal Layka and Andres Sacco

David Pollak has been writing commercial software since 1977. He wrote the award-winning ddg>Mesa spreadsheet, which in 1992 was the first real-time spreadsheet. Wall Street companies traded billions of dollars a day through Mesa. In 1996, David sold his company to wp>CMP Media and became CTO of ddg>CMP Media's NetGuide Live and was one of the first large-scale users of Java and wp>WebLogic to power an Internet site. In 1998, David released ddg>Integer spreadsheet, the world's first browser-accessible, multiuser spreadsheet. Since 2000, David has been consulting for companies including Hewlett-Packard, ddg>Pretzel Logic/ddg>WebGain, ddg>BankServ, Twitter, and SAP. David has been using Scala since 2006 and is the lead developer of the ddg>Lift Web framework.

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