On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Oscar Hsieh <[email protected]> wrote: > Just out of my own curiosity, a quick check on wikipedia > > Groovy - "James Strachan first talked about the development of Groovy in his > blog 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 and javac, Sun's Java compiler.[3] Scala was released > late 2003 / early 2004 on the Java platform, and on the .NET platform in > June 2004.[2][3][4] A second version of the language, v2.0, was released in > March 2006.[2]" > > Again, I dont think date matters, but Cedric is right on this one.
You posted stuff I had literally already quoted in here with numbers that show groovy had releases pre 2007. That is the only part of Cedric's claim I find ridiculous. (If for no other reason than Grails was in development pre 2007...) As for comparing it to scala, I really don't care which came first. I think everyone agrees that the Java ecosystem was rather close minded to alternate languages until rather recently. This thread seems to indicate that isn't changing much in some people's mind. -- 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.
