Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Groovy as an "official" alternate language for the JVM JSR 241 attempts to officially designate Groovy as an alternative language for the Java VM. The Groovy language is an "agile" language, meaning the language designers attempted to design something a programmer could use to rapidly develop code. Not a bad idea, really, for quick 'n dirty code development. Ruby, Jython and others have been around for a while. Making an official RAD language would stop the balkanization of agile language alternativesfor the JVM. It would also make use of agile languages a realistic alternative for those (great number of) programming houses who are more conservative and like to stick to "official" stuff. 1:24:08 PM    comment []