Hi Josh Thanks for doing the detective work on what will be probably another web presentation.
When both you and D.J are in London, I will be buying you both pints of beers. On Mar 30, 9:58 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 <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_no...>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_no...> > [3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_%28programming_language%29#cite_no...> > [4]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_%28programming_language%29#cite_no...>A > second version of the language, v2.0, was released in March 2006. > [2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_%28programming_language%29#cite_no...> > " > > 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.
