diff --git a/docs/programming-guide.md b/docs/programming-guide.md index f398e38fbb32741173df8b6044f0a7fdf972af57..601dd578f473b79945f4568ff8e3045bfe625ba4 100644 --- a/docs/programming-guide.md +++ b/docs/programming-guide.md @@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ along with if you launch Spark's interactive shell -- either `bin/spark-shell` f <div data-lang="scala" markdown="1"> -Spark {{site.SPARK_VERSION}} uses Scala {{site.SCALA_BINARY_VERSION}}. To write +Spark {{site.SPARK_VERSION}} is built and distributed to work with Scala {{site.SCALA_BINARY_VERSION}} +by default. (Spark can be built to work with other versions of Scala, too.) To write applications in Scala, you will need to use a compatible Scala version (e.g. {{site.SCALA_BINARY_VERSION}}.X). To write a Spark application, you need to add a Maven dependency on Spark. Spark is available through Maven Central at: