Yes, Groovy is influenced by Ruby. It's probably better to compare
Groovy to JRuby rather than Ruby since the former two operate on the
JVM and are an apples-to-apples comparison.
But there are things in JRuby that is influenced by Groovy. No ideas
are new, both languages fit a niche.
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I prefer Amazon as well. Thanks to VirtualBox, I can sync my ipod
touch to iTunes (really just for the occasional free tv episodes they
give out). That, Netflix and ABC.com are the only things I use the
Windows disk image for.
On Jul 14, 1:16 pm, Joshua Marinacci jos...@marinacci.org wrote:
I
James Strachan stated in a follow-up post that I think a few folks
got the wrong end of the stick thinking my post was some kinda put
down of dynamically typed languages. I still like Groovy/Ruby/
JavaScript etc. I tried to focus the blog post purely on folks who
were hacking statically typed
I think the EU was a bit premature in their recommendations. Esp the
pork advisories. The source were infected people in Mexico who
traveled. That's why most of the cases are based around the border and/
or major ports of entry(spring breakers). As Josh said, there are few
cases in the States
( Full Disclosure: I'm a co-creator of Griffon and it is a 0.1-Beta
release. Somewhat of a shameless plug)
A lot of the Groovy news, at least in the second half of the year was
centered around Griffon which launched in early September. Griffon is
a Grails-like framework to create Swing
