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+Note that applications should define a `main()` method instead of extending `scala.App`.
+Subclasses of `scala.App` may not work correctly.
+
This program just counts the number of lines containing 'a' and the number containing 'b' in the
Spark README. Note that you'll need to replace YOUR_SPARK_HOME with the location where Spark is
installed. Unlike the earlier examples with the Spark shell, which initializes its own SparkContext,