P#?  But that's not even a musical note, it's just a curious
infection.  What are these people thinking?

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Robert Casto <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well there is the F language. And of course F#. Don't forget P#. Then there
> are all the Visual ??? languages. Scala of course and a bunch of others. So
> I think it could have been much worse though it is hard to get your boss to
> let work work on something that sounds like fun.
>
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Jon Kiparsky <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> It may make me a bad person, or a shallow one, but I cannot conceive of
>> learning a language called "groovy". The idea simply turns my stomach. Could
>> they not have come up with a less awful name? Like, maybe "scrotum"?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:11 PM, parentjo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> During the brief discussion of groovy's upcoming static typing I feel
>>> groovy++ deserves to be mentioned as well. It is an extension/
>>> companion for the current groovy release. It retains all of the groovy
>>> goodness and adds static typing with a simple annotation. The static
>>> typing is both at compile time (*) and at runtime. The lack of runtime
>>> enhancements  (MOP) gives it a clear performance boost compared to
>>> dynamic groovy.
>>>
>>> I used this in small project and it gives you all the enhancements to
>>> Collection API, closures, terse syntax etc of groovy while being typed
>>> like java. Personally, that's all I need.
>>>
>>> It is no clear to me what the "interactions" are between the groovy++
>>> and groovy project since the latter does not seem to refer to the
>>> existing groovy++ work much. Politics perhaps?
>>>
>>> More info and benchmarks at
>>> http://code.google.com/p/groovypptest/wiki/Welcome
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Johan
>>>
>>> (*) From G. Laforge's talk @devoxx2011 I remember that initially the
>>> type checking will be compile time only. Maybe that changed in the
>>> meanwhile.
>>>
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