de Lausanne
    (EPFL) by Martin Odersky, following on from work on Funnel, a programming language
    combining ideas from functional programming and Petri nets.[not in citation given]
    Odersky had previously worked on Generic Java and javac, Sun's Java compiler. Scala
    was released late 2003 / early 2004 on the Java platform, and on the .NET platform
    in June 2004. A second version of the language, v2.0, was released in March 2006.
    On 17 January 2011 Scala team won a 5 year research grant of over €2.3 million from
    European Research Council. On 12 May 2011, Odersky and collaborators launched Typesafe,
    a company to provide commercialEdinburgh Fringe: The Night Of The Big Wind – Underbelly

Puppet &Set Design: William Aubrey-Jones and Peter John-Morton

Composer: Carly McConnell

Director: Carly McConnell and William Aubrey-Jones

Reviewer: Deborah Klayman

[rating: 3.5]

Gentle and thoughtful, The Night Of The Big Wind tells the tale of a young boy caught up in a terrible storm when the tiny fishing village he lives in is hit by it. With a skilfully made and manipulated puppet representing the boy and the piece entirely without dialogue, this ambitious production succeeds in communicating the story through music and movement alone.

Although very pleasing to watch, the pace of the play is very slow and it takes a long time to get going. The Irish village is well established, with the cast preparing for the storm by rearranging the set and