Just out of my own curiosity, a quick check on wikipedia Groovy - "James Strachan first talked about the development of Groovy in his blog <http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/2003/08/29.html> in August 2003. Several versions were released between 2004 and 2006. "
Scala - "The design of Scala started in 2001 ...... Odersky had previously worked on Generic Java<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Java_%28programming_language%29>and javac <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javac>, Sun's Java compiler.[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_%28programming_language%29#cite_note-history-of-scala-2>Scala was released late 2003 / early 2004 on the Java platform, and on the .NET platform in June 2004.[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_%28programming_language%29#cite_note-overview-1> [3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_%28programming_language%29#cite_note-history-of-scala-2> [4]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_%28programming_language%29#cite_note-spec-3>A second version of the language, v2.0, was released in March 2006. [2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_%28programming_language%29#cite_note-overview-1> " Again, I dont think date matters, but Cedric is right on this one. 2011/3/30 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Josh Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 2011/3/30 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>: >> > My point was to show that you are completely wrong when you claim: >> > "Groovy was the first of the non-Java JVM languages, so it has a >> head-start >> > some degree of commercial support (not least, via Spring), so it's >> > unsurprising that it currently has higher adoption." >> > Scala came out before Groovy. Way before. Therefore, according to >> you, Scala >> > should have a much higher adoption than Groovy. >> >> Uh, a very quick wikipedia/google search will show that the number you >> cite for groovy is horribly misleading. >> > > Which number, "Groovy 1.0 was released on January 2, 2007."? > > -- > Cédric > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
