Comments on: Syntactic Sugar… http://blog.huikau.com/2008/05/27/syntactic-sugar/ ... finding time to write something useful is nontrivial ... Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:58:34 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Matt Harrah http://blog.huikau.com/2008/05/27/syntactic-sugar/comment-page-1/#comment-208 Matt Harrah Tue, 27 May 2008 23:52:42 +0000 http://blog.huikau.com/2008/05/27/syntactic-sugar/#comment-208 I know you're a big fan of Ruby, Mike, and rightly so. You also know how hesitant I have been to make the dynlang leap. Interesting that you mention Groovy, because I've been playing with it a little recently and I really like what I see. And it is definitely loaded with syntactic sugar. I'm usually not a big fan of syntactic sugar, but with expressivity being a key concern for dynlangs, I am surprisingly accepting of it in Groovy (and to a lesser degree Ruby which I don't know very well, but I've liked what I've seen). Good article! I know you’re a big fan of Ruby, Mike, and rightly so. You also know how hesitant I have been to make the dynlang leap. Interesting that you mention Groovy, because I’ve been playing with it a little recently and I really like what I see. And it is definitely loaded with syntactic sugar. I’m usually not a big fan of syntactic sugar, but with expressivity being a key concern for dynlangs, I am surprisingly accepting of it in Groovy (and to a lesser degree Ruby which I don’t know very well, but I’ve liked what I’ve seen).

Good article!

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