Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the many people who participated in the creation of this book. To Nermin Šerifović, our friend from the Boston Scala group, thank you for first planting the seed of this book in our minds.

To the amazing team at Capital IQ, thank you for your support and for bravely helping beta test the first version of the book’s curriculum.

We would like to especially acknowledge Tony Morris for embarking on this journey with us. His work on the early stages of the book remains invaluable, as does his larger contribution to the practice of functional programming in Scala.

Martin, thank you for your wonderful foreword, and of course for creating this powerful language that is helping to reshape our industry.

During the book-writing process, we were grateful for the encouragement from the enthusiastic community of Scala users interested in functional programming. To our reviewers, MEAP readers, and everyone else who provided feedback or submitted bug reports and pull requests, thank you! This book would not be what it is today without your help.