Ruby/JRuby is another good option (Some would say better then python),
but last I herd (I could be wrong here, Jim?) JRuby is GNU
licensed, so no go for commercial apps.
Two comments:
(1) I think you meant "proprietary" rather than "commercial".
(2) As Jason pointed out, Jruby can be distributed under the LGPL
which allows the proprietary portion of your code to be
distributed source-less.
But on the topic of Groovy, I've been keeping my eye on it for a while.
It is very Ruby-like. For example ...
Groovy: value = [1,2,3].inject('counting: ') { str, item | str + item
}
Ruby: value = [1,2,3].inject('counting: ') { |str, item| str +
item.to_s }
The big advantage to Groovy in an all-Java environment is that Groovy is
designed to use the Java libraries, where both (J)Ruby and (J|P)ython
come
with their own system libraries.
There will be a session on Groovy by Christopher Judd at the Southern
Ohio
Software Symposium (e.g. No Fluff, Just Stuff) this year (Aug 6-8).
I'm thinking of doing a talk on Groovy for CinJUG. Any interest?
-- Jim Weirich
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