APPENDIX AThe Groovy Language
Groovy is an all-purpose programming language for the JVM. It was born in 2003 when James Strachan and Bob McWhirter founded the Groovy project with the goal of creating a glue language to easily combine existing frameworks and components. Groovy is a language that aims to bring the expressiveness of languages such as Ruby, Lisp, and Python to the Java platform while still remaining Java friendly.
It attracted much excitement with these ambitious goals, because the majority of other scripting languages on the Java platform either used an entirely alien syntax and APIs or were simply Java without the need to specify types.
Despite its youth, Groovy is a stable, feature-rich language that forms the perfect base for ...
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