Groovy....

Years ago a working colleage of mine stopped working with ruby and changed to hype groovy instead. Though i knew he is not one of the silly part of mankind i did not pay the respect i should have.

Well - as a senior PL/SQL developer i never was really happy about the masses of info one should know to sucessfully start programming in jave (just my opinion - criticize me if you have to). As i am interested in programming for fun (meaning programming should BE fun) i spend a short time on perl and a little bit more on ruby and again stumbled upon (not the famous browser plugin which i like anyway) groovy.

For those who do not already know: Groovy is an agile programming language mixing up many good things of perl, ruby and java, and it gets a boost by being able to run inside java as it - more or less - IS Java. Just a bit extended.

It is very efficient (speaking of lines of code per solved problem) and astonishes you very often by showing the solutin is that simple.

As a plus - it can be run like an interpreter language on a command line, but can also be compiled as a class which can be instantly used (in groovy and java of course).

I end this post by showing the whole code needed for a Hello world - which does not show much but you may see the direction it points at.

println('Hello world!')

thats it...

tbc

Reopened...

Hi :)

I made up my mind - and decided to restart my Blog...

Hope to see you later,

Michael