CHAPTER 4Object-Oriented Groovy
Groovy is a fully fledged object-oriented (OO) language supporting all of the OO programming concepts that are familiar to Java developers: classes, objects, interfaces, inheritance, polymorphism, and others. Groovy is a pure OO language in which everything is an object. Don't let the fact that you can write scripts in Groovy fool you; the Groovy compiler will convert such scripts into Java classes of type groovy.lang.Script.
I don't like to label Groovy as a scripting language, because the term scripting is often associated with unwieldy, unstructured, and hard-to-read code that doesn't scale. This is absolutely not the case in Groovy. You can fully organize your code into classes and packages and at the same ...
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