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Looks like Auckland NZ is planning on following this trend by building two tram lines over the next 10 years (CBD down Dominion Rd to Airport, another CBD to West), 60 years after …

No, I am right, because I didn't say Apache Groovy didn't have lambdas, I said it still didn't have the Java 8 lambda syntax in response to the comment that Groovy was so "ruthless…

> At some point I switch to full Groovy projects, switching on static compilation If you let your Apache Groovy scripts get too large before switching on static compilation, you of…

> inorganic life, simple life, and sentient life ... and prescient life. Don't forget the next stage on from sentience. The line between sentience and prescience also seems blurred…

Although Mandarin isn't "influenced" by Latin, it is also influenced by English. In China most everyday writing would just insert the letters "DNA" into the text. But even for scie…

Apache Groovy's apparent rise from #81 to #15 on Tiobe's index [1] over the past 12 month is disturbing, though. If it doesn't have the downsides of Python, then why would someone …

> the most valuable skill a programmer can have isn't technical, but rather social: empathy You should say "a programmer needs social skill as well as technical skills to be valuab…

Having a runaway hit isn't just about creating it, but also successfully maintaining it. Strachan abandoned Apache Groovy only 2 years after creating it so he doesn't really count.…

Too bad Apache Groovy itself didn't remain popular after popularizing the name "it" for the much older idea of contextually-defined pronouns in programming languages. Using the nam…

> 81 is probably as inaccurate the other way as 15 is today I can understand both how and why someone would push Apache Groovy's ranking higher up the Tiobe results, but I wouldn't…

They're talking about "Go 2" the brand, not Go 2.0 being a new major version having breaking changes to Go 1.x. There are no plans for a breaking-changes Go 2, only occasional addi…

> active COBOL use that continues today [...] 220 Billion LOC That 220b LOC is because most newly-written COBOL programs today are copied and pasted from some other large existing …

> the currently-popular crop of languages: Java, C, Python, C++, C#, VB.NET, JS, PHP, SQL, Objective-C, Ruby, assembly, Swift, Matlab, and Groovy, say Did you get this list of 15 l…

Scripting languages were to the 200x's what visual 4GL's were to the 1990's, i.e. a whole bunch of them came and went, and only a few gained mass adoption, perhaps 4GL's Visual Bas…

The title should be "What's your favorite Linux scripting language?" Presumably you don't want to talk about Powershell (Windows), Javascript (Web), or Apache Groovy (JVM).

That natural garbage collection happens during sleep, you need to sleep on it a couple of times. So make that a staged 25 minutes, i.e. 10 mins one day, 10 mins the next, then 5 mi…

> using all-lowercase letters for the compiler and title case for the language 'rakudo' is an implementation of 'Rakudo', huh? It's only natural for one to tag the specification an…

> Groovy is one language Apache Groovy is two languages. The Groovy 2.x download, first released in 2012, bundles two different compilers that were both forked from the Groovy 1 co…

> Grails which is a web framework for Groovy that is based on spring boot. It's plugins I thought Grails uses Spring Boot only from 3 onwards, and only versions up to Grails 2.x ha…

Are you allowed to overlay the "yes" or "no" with different intonations? If not, then you can tell the truth and nothing but the truth, but you can't tell the whole truth in your a…

> jobs that could be automated with a few days or weeks of programmer effort Governments don't want the workers in their countries to not have a job, even when there's plenty of we…

> The capitalisation is maybe the most annoying for me, I think it was designed with an IDE in mind If you don't have an IDE, you can start by making all functions and methods priv…

> 20 years ago, a typical team was mostly CS majors [...] Today however, especially in fields like frontend development, its extremely likely ZERO person in the team has a CS backg…

> I know some people will use Python 2 beyond EOL, but at this point that's their task and the task of whomever they pay for assistance, not everyone else's Virtually every common …

An official "EOL" from the Python Benevolency doesn't mean Python 2 has reached the end of its life. There's too many projects out there using it for the same reasons this one is, …