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Two days ago I was hacking away at some Ruby scripts and thought it would be nice if I could write them in Groovy (not necessarily useful, just nice).
Of course, for small scripts that honour the UNIX philosophy, that would be a terrible idea. These scripts should start instantly and have minimal overheads.
What changes would be needed to allow Groovy to compete with languages like Perl, Python, TCL, Ruby or plain old shell scripts in this space?