On 12/8/05, netsql <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you baiting me to pitch Groovy? :-) > > I find it most Java like, with dynamics added (like I hope Java adds > them soon to keep up w/ ObjectiveC and C#), and cleans up > collections.(to be more dynamic. I tried BSF, it adds nothing for my > needs, and never tried jRuby or Jython, it's a little wierd). > Using Groovy we process and convert (nttp, mail, rss) 40K messages per > day, nice way to do heavy lifting. (I initilay tried Groovy when I found > Google does Phython on back end, and I wanted similar productivity and > features. And... if you do collections in C#, Java Collections seems odd > now, and I stoped using beans a long time ago.) > To me, dynamic is more important then scripting. > Ex: data[2]["f_name"]; > this gets me 3rd row in a List called data, and in that 3rd row of the > List, it gets me a value in a Map of a key "f_name".
This is *way* off topic, but I don't see why you're associating the above syntax with dynamically typed languages. That's just the use of operator syntax for accessing associative arrays. That's just as viable in statically typed languages as it is in dynamically typed ones. It just happens to be something Java doesn't have right now. -- Martin Cooper Of course, I dont't hard code '2' and "f_name", I just do 'for each' to > enumerate rows/collums. > He he. > I first played w/ this way of coding in Flash when I did 1up. And now > when I play w/ WinFX... C# does it too. But C# on server side... lets > not kid ourselfs, not stable on Linux, so... entire back end: Groovy! > For gods sake it lets you use existing jars that you know and love. > Now if you had to do beans in Java to do similar, that is a ton more > code. So BSF... whatever. > > I would not call Groovy a lang of the month, buddy! ;-) > > .V > > > Don Brown wrote: > > > You could easily use JRuby, Jython, or another scripting > > language-of-the-month. Unfortunately, due to ASF licensing restrictions, > > I can only include Groovy. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
