On Mar 29, 2:25 pm, [email protected] wrote: > Le 29 mars 2011 13:47, Peter A Pilgrim <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > I may as well pack up my showel and toolbox and go back down the mine. > > There are no mines in the UK any more.
Yes Matthew that is probably correct. The tin copper mines are now toxic, arsenic and lethal. There may be a few coal mines still going. > > > What about anywhere else in the flipping world? > > Switzerland: > > Ignoring the obvious (EPFL), there are a number of small startups in and > around Lausanne interested in Scala. > > For my part, I've used Groovy for peripheral scripts (groovlets for > spoofing web services for testing), and some production code in limited > areas: Ah ha! I like the Groovy's coding. It is so easy to write the Groovy equivalent of "wget". Try doing that with pure Java and forget about it. > > 1) Data migration > 2) Functionality which needs to be flexible, before and after production. > For instance we had to generate the text which would appear on an invoice, > so we invoked a Groovy script from the server (see > http://randomallsorts.blogspot.com/2011/02/replacing-properties-with-...). > During testing, we could change the code rapidly without redeploying, and > after production, the email addresses etc could easily be changed. > Here is an example of Groovy being used as glue code or part of the toolchain. Yes may be latter in your case, Matthew. > However, personally, nothing major in either Scala or Groovy. > Well at least your aware of Beyond Java, rather than being completely unaware. I have tee-shirt from Matthias' Swedish conference, in the house somewhere, with a picture of pixelated skinheard character and the motif states: "Ignorance hurts" > Matthew. -- 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.
