From: markusjais@...
Date: 2004-03-17T18:19:32+09:00
Subject: Re: groovy

David Garamond wrote:

> Groovy, a scripting language targeted for JVM, was mentioned in Slashdot
> today.
> 
>   http://groovy.codehaus.org/
> 
> Any comments? It seems to borrow some stuffs from Ruby, like closure
> (which is very much like Ruby's block), 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 :-)
> 


it looks cool. and it might improve the productivity  for java programmers.

I like java a lot but everytime I port one of my Java programs to Python or
Ruby I am annoyed about how much I have to type in Java (System.out.println
vs. puts/print, or opening and printing a file).

so this might be a great addition to the java developer's toolbox.

only future will tell if this will be a huge success or not.

markus