From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-06-06T23:51:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Groovy: your perspective

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Diego Virasoro<Diego.Virasoro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I realise this is a very hot topic... and people have strong feelings
> about either language. I am not trying to trolling.
>
> Still I've heard a bit about Groovy and it kind of seems like the Java
> answer to Ruby (even the names are kind of similar). So I was
> wondering if that kind of "first citizen" status will eventually make
> it take over Ruby as a dynamic language (assuming that indeed that the
> Groovy language offers everything Ruby does).
>
> I checked online, but websites are either very old, or too "official".
> So I wanted to ask my fellow Ruby programmers, who probably share
> similar preferences to mine.

I don't think anyone has already mentioned this, but Yehuda Katz
posted this a few days ago it contrasts one aspect of Ruby vs. Groovy.

http://yehudakatz.com/2009/06/04/the-importance-of-executable-class-bodies/

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