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Original Post: Throwing away code again with Groovy
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I run into a task now and then in which the effort of manually doing something is more than writing a script to do the task for me.
However, at the same time, this task may be a one off, so I don't want to spend a lot of time worrying about:
How elegant the design is
How the program handles its memory
How readable the code is
How generic and reusable it is
... and the other many things that you often worry about ...
When I was hacking a lot of Perl, I would not think twice... and would open up a doFoo.pl and get going. As soon as it worked, I was done.
When in the Java world though, I often found myself spending more time thinking about things, and how I could make it generic etc etc. I had a suddent oversion to writing code that I would maybe rm after it was used.
Now, I can still use Perl (and do), but now with Groovy I am getting the best of both worlds.
I feel that I can throw away code again
I can utilize my large set of Java libraries from with my "script"
I am having fun :)
It is refreshing to have my mind back in the mode of throwing away code. Be-gone!
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