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Danny reports from Javapolis about the Groovy presentation that came after JRuby:

Now you have to believe me, in the 90 minutes of Groovy that followed, I did keep an open mind. I tried to look at the code samples objectively. I tried to admire the work that has gone into creating a dynamic variant of Java. I really tried hard to imagine a scenario where I would be tempted to remotely consider using Groovy in a real-world app. Okay, and I was also just a little bit busy trying to get my laptop to talk to the JavaPolis wireless network, which wasn?t easy either. But at least that one I finally succeeded at. The Groovy thing?I?m afraid it?s not for me. It gives me the worst of both worlds: no sweet Ruby syntax, and on top of that uglified Java syntax as well. Maybe next time I?ll see the light. I promise to keep an open mind.

At least he's keeping an open mind. (Italics mine.)