On 12/03/2015 18:19, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Cédric Champeau
<cedric.champ...@gmail.com> wrote:
I made this remark to myself, which is that too many people still think that
Groovy is only a dynamic language. I think it's a problem because
it's not, and some people really dislike dynamic languages. When they read
something like "the Groovy dynamic object-oriented programming language"
(from the Apache blog post)
may not realize that it's much more than that (it was only dynamic a few
years ago, but it has evolved a lot, and now a static language as much as
it is a dynamic one). So I would lean towards rephrasing the first paragraph
of the proposal from "It is a primarily dynamic language with features
similar to those of Python, Ruby, Perl, and Smalltalk."
to "It is a programming language with features similar to those of Python,
Ruby, Java, Perl, and Smalltalk."
And if possible, everything we see "dynamic programming language", remove
the mention to "dynamic" to just "programming language". What do you think?
It's not that I don't like the dynamic
programming aspects of Groovy of course, but I think we should not cut off
part of our user base just by making erroneous statements.
Sure. That looks good to me. That being said -- what's written on the proposal
is only important to the IPMC so I don't think it'll be a huge change in outside
perception one way or another.
In fact, my reaction comes from the fact that I am reading many press
articles where we read "the Groovy dynamic language" or variants.
And since this is written in the Apache Blog itself[1] and the proposal
[2] we cannot really blame them. Marketing-wise, looks like a bad move :)
[1] https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/groovy_submitted_to_become_a
[2] https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GroovyProposal
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Cédric Champeau
Groovy language developer
http://twitter.com/CedricChampeau
http://melix.github.io/blog
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