From: gabriele renzi Date: 2004-03-17T17:09:32+09:00 Subject: Re: groovy il Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:07:16 +0900, David Garamond ha scritto:: >Groovy, a scripting language targeted for JVM, was mentioned in Slashdot >today. > > http://groovy.codehaus.org/ > >Any comments? yes, It seem many rubyist are even groovytes. If you look in the groovy wiki you may find even matz' quotes :) >It seems to borrow some stuffs from Ruby, like closure >(which is very much like Ruby's block), actually they get the whole block/yield syntax :) > the =~ regex matching operator, >and even the "Principle of Least Surprise". But syntax-wise it's >basically a mixture of Python, Ruby, and Java. It has some stuffs that >Ruby doesn't currently have like keyword arguments, easier embedding, >and native threads, but it's still not Ruby :-) even GPath is cool. But mostly I love the key: value syntax for hashes. Luckily we'll see it in ruby soon :) I think is interesting that groovy received a much better acceptance from java people than, say, jruby or jython. I believe that somehow relates to the number of { and } :)