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JEKLblog: Exploring Groovy's Optional Typing Features
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Musings on software development, technology, and the occasional random thought. Sunday, July 20, 2008. Exploring Groovy's Optional Typing Features. So I was talking to a friend over a beer after the last BJUG. That night it was the Venkat Show. Note: code for this blog can be downloaded from here. After the jug, we started discussing Groovy. Here is the basic challenge he threw down: "Write a Groovy method that takes a statically typed argument of List. Now call this method from another method, suppl...
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How Clojure improved my Groovy | Inside the Machine
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Discussing languages and technologies associated with the JVM. How Clojure improved my Groovy. How Clojure improved my Groovy. January 15, 2010. Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt have been saying for years that you should learn new programming languages. Doing so improves your skill in any language, whether you use the new language or not. I believed this with some skepticism, but decided nonetheless to start learning Clojure. After reading The Pragmatic Programmer. Def elements = [It, works, on, my, machine!