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By bloid
via graemerocher.blogspot.com
Published: Jun 28 2007 / 03:07
Just to be clear, for the benefit of Alex, Groovy is a dynamic language that supports meta-programming and a Meta-Object Protocol (MOP) like Smalltalk, Ruby and to a certain extent Python. Scala is a statically typed language that supports functional programming more like Haskell.
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bloid replied ago:
Alex has posted a response: http://www.dzone.com/links/groovy_has_an_interpreter.html
*fetches popcorn* ;)
glaforge replied ago:
It's odd how someone can be so bitter and spread FUD that way. I'd say it's even sad for him. Poor guy.
alblue replied ago:
Bloid; actually, I posted the groovy has an interpreter post prior to my knowledge of this one; I raised it in response to the comments left on my post. I've also replied to Graeme's blog entry, since he specifically misrepresents what I said. Sadly, the existence of an interpreter for Groovy or not is somewhat irrelivant to the point I was making in the original post; and specifically with reference to the other languages that I was comparing it to, they all have combinations of interpreters and compilers. Frankly, I don't know why Graeme and the Groovies are getting so wound up about it; after all, the groovy interpreter is clearly documented on the Groovy webpage as either Groovy Console or Groovy Shell. Having those things is a *benefit* for languages, not a detriment.
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