hi groovy-users, from the new overview section:
Why Groovy ? > > ... It's funny that the 'if Java had that syntax' syntax in this > article is actually the Groovy syntax. > from http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html Revenge of the Nerds : "If you look at these languages in order, Java, Perl, Python, you notice an interesting pattern. At least, you notice this pattern if you are a Lisp hacker. Each one is progressively more like Lisp. Python copies even features that many Lisp hackers consider to be mistakes. You could translate simple Lisp programs into Python line for line. It's 2002, and programming languages have almost caught up with 1958 ... It's because Lisp was not really designed to be a programming language, at least not in the sense we mean today." IMO groovy makes steps towards lisp ... just as described. this explains, why groovy can be more powerful than java for some usecases. after looking at clojure, i decided not to invest in learning scala but to love groovy instead and make a bigger step ... some day. gruesse -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/from-the-new-overview-section%3A-why-groovy---tp28114915p28114915.html Sent from the gradle-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
