I think most people on this list were interested in a Groovy presentation because JRuby is targeted more towards Ruby developers who want to run Ruby on a Java stack, while Groovy is targeted more towards Java developers who want to use an easy to learn dynamic and agile language with a syntax close to Java. Since I believe most people here are more familiar with Java than Ruby there is a bigger interest in Groovy.
Bashar ----- Original Message ---- From: Chad Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: jug-discussion@tucson-jug.org Sent: Sunday, June 8, 2008 12:17:15 AM Subject: Re: [jug-discussion] Groovy and JRuby On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Thomas Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To partially answer your original question: I use Groovy because it is > built on top of a mature and immense language platform, so I don't > have to reinvent the wheel every time I sit down to code. How does JRuby not meet this requirement? It can call Java classes, and using a different (superior in my opinion) interpreted/dynamic language is not reinventing the wheel, plus Ruby predates Groovy anyway, by quite a while [1] :) -- Chad [1] http://www.levenez.com/lang/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
