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Why does Groovy have this name?
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Rogerio Kioshi
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Why?
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SCEA 5 (part 1), SCBCD, SCWCD, SCJP, CLP, CLS
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Geoff Thé
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If Neal Ford had his way, it would be called exBl. ;-)
cf. http://ford.mixer.blogdns.com/?p=3097
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Gregg Bolinger
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Originally posted by Rogerio Kioshi:
Why?
Quoted directly from Groovy Recipes:
Perhaps James Strachan said it best on August 29, 2003, when he
introduced the world to a little open source project he had been work-
ing on. In a blog entry4 titled �Groovy: The Birth of a New Dynamic
Language for the Java Platform,� he said this:
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�I�ve wanted to use a cool dynamically typed scripting language specif-
ically for the Java platform for a little while. There�s plenty to choose
from, but none of them quite feels right�especially from the perspec-
tive of a die-hard Java programmer. Python and Ruby are both pretty
cool�though they are platforms in their own right. I�d rather a dynamic
language that builds right on top of all the groovy Java code out there
and the JVM.
There's a bit more in the quote but I didn't want to put the entire thing here.
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Dave Klein
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Actually Neal's name is "ebXl" which stands for "enterprise business eXecution language", but I don't really think that the name is going to be a problem in the long run; after all we currently have people from the trenches of corporate IT to the ivory towers of academia developing "Java Beans".
Dave
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