From: Michael Geary <Mike@...>
Date: 2004-07-16T02:37:18+09:00
Subject: Re: scripting language (fwd)

Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> got this from a friend... any thoughts?
>
> Hey A-
>
> I'm investigating alternative scripting languages.  We
> currently use Perl almost exclusively (except
> sometimes some ksh) but would like to consider a
> language that is friendlier with the JVM.  It also has
> to have an LDAP API and an Oracle API, without
> requiring C coding (we don't have C coders here).

I hesitate to suggest a language other than Ruby, but if they want something
that's friendly with the JVM, I wonder if they should be looking at Groovy?

http://groovy.codehaus.org/
http://groovy.codehaus.org/Language+Guide

-Mike