Darryl Taft has a nice chat with James Gosling.
He talks about many topics, including Groovy. In general he likes it, but wishes it was a bit more daring. He even had a list of questions / thoughts for the Groovy team, and hopefully James will ask him for the list. I bet there are some interesting items!
I think Groovy is pretty interesting. I think they're being fairly conservative. I think they could be a little more outlandish and get a little more interesting.
remember sort of reading through their syntax list and saying, "Oh, why didn't you do this and why didn't you do that?" There were some things about the way that they did sort of the equivalence of declarations and some things about the way they did case switch statements I sort of felt like writing them this long letter and saying, "What? Why didn't you do it this way?" You know (laughter). So they actually had some neat stuff in there.
But I like Groovy a lot. We sort of got into political hot water when the whole JavaScript thing happened. So we've tended to try to have sort of an arm's length relationship to anything having to do with scripting. We're happy to use scripting; we do a lot of scripting ourselves . I actually did a pretty nice scripting language; at least I think it was nice, back in the early days. And I threw it in the trash can when the whole JavaScript thing with Netscape happened. And you know, in retrospect, ugh, what a bizarre thing to have done. But, you know, it's water under the bridge.
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