My previous post “Basic Primes in Scala” ended with some ideas of how to salvage some use out of the algorithm. I mentioned representing the numbers as concentric circles. Playing around with a text editor, I converted some of the numbers to arrangements of concentric squares.
I’ve started learning Scala. One way I learn is by reading and experimenting, so I looked for a simple program I could write in the right problem space to make use of language features expressed more succinctly in Scala than in Java.
This is my first post. It was created automatically by WordPress, but I’ve edited it.
When starting to edit it, I was trying to decide whether to change the title. WordPress had given it the title “Hello world!”, which I had used as the title for the first entry in my son’s blog, announcing his birth. I think that blog post deserved such a title, but this one doesn’t. Such a title doesn’t convey any details about the contents of what I’m writing here. No one is going to have their curiosity piqued by a WordPress blog post titled “Hello world!”. So I changed it.
