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Scripting Language?  Posted By Daniel Spiewak On November 3,
2008 @ 1:00 am In Scala | 26 Comments  I know, the title seems a
bit…bizarre.  I don’t know about you, but when I think of Scala,
I think of many of the same uses to which I apply Java.   Scala
is firmly entrenched in my mind as a static, mid-level language
[1] highly applicable to things like large-scale applications
and non-trivial architectures, but less so for tasks like file
processing and system maintenance.   However, as I have been
discovering, Scala is also extremely well suited to basic
scripting tasks, things that I would normally solve in a dynamic
language like Ruby.  One particular task which I came across
quite recently was the parsing of language files into bloom
filters [2], which were then stored on disk.  To me, this sounds
like a perfect application for a scripting language.  It’s
fairly simple, self-contained, involves a moderate degree of
file processing, and should b