Chapter 12. Working with the GDK
This chapter covers
- How Groovy extends the JVM
- GDK extensions
- Working with objects
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
Fred Brooks
Learning a new programming language is a twofold task: learning the syntax and learning the standard library. Learning the syntax is a matter of days and getting proficient with new language idioms may require a few weeks, but working through a new library can easily take several months.
Luckily, no Java programmer needs to go through this time-consuming activity when learning Groovy. They already know most of the Groovy Standard Library, because that’s the ...
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