From: "Volkmann, Mark" <Mark.Volkmann@...>
Date: 2004-01-22T00:38:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposal for programming language of the year

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Szegedy [mailto:szegedy@t-online.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 6:50 PM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: Proposal for programming language of the year
> 
> 
> Volkmann, Mark wrote:
> ... for those looking for a
> > language that borrows heavily from Ruby and interacts well 
> with Java, I
> > suggest looking at Groovy (http://groovy.codehaus.org).
> 
> I did not find Groovy particularly interesting, since it 
> really seems to 
> be yet another Ruby/Python-clone, written in/for Java.

I guess the thing I find most interesting about Groovy is that Groovy
scripts can be compiled to Java bytecode that is saved in a .class file.
This can be used seamlessly by Java classes and it can seamlessly use Java
classes.  I wouldn't claim that the performance of Java is great, but I
believe it is generally faster than so called scripting languages.  Groovy
makes it possible to achieve performance similar to Java and code in a much
more comfortable syntax that resembles Ruby. 


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