At lease Dick is up front with his hatred of the Groovy! It's the attitudes of the other three that are more questionable. You hear them say things like "type safety", "large applications", "performance", "xx times faster" all the time---all code words designed to slight The Groovy!
:) <= International humor emoticon attached for the humor-impaired. Steven Herod wrote: > Yeah, I agree. He keeps saying he doesn't, but under that mild manner > polite English exterior, there is an angry man who just wants to open > a can of whoop ass on the Groovy. > > For instance, did you notice he didn't mention at all in any of his > holiday tweets? > > On Apr 30, 9:04 am, Joshua Marinacci <[email protected]> wrote: >> Why that's uttering ridiculous. Dick *hates* The Groovy. >> On Apr 29, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Steven Herod wrote: >> >> >> >>> Guys (Gals?) >>> One thing I've learned lately is that whilst we're all bound together >>> by a profession and a programming language, our individual world views >>> are often radically different. >>> The advice of not talking about "religion, politics or sex" (aka >>> social issues) is probably the best advice we can take to keep us all >>> happily participating. >>> Lets get back to truly contentious issues, like closures, immutability >>> and if Dick loves the Groovy... :o) -- Weiqi Gao [email protected] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
