[PJUG Javamail] So Many Languages, So Little Time

[steve.j.hall at tektronix.com]

Why not Groovy

You can script Groovy
You can build real applications with Groovy
It has many ways of doing things that are easier and more productive than Java

There are tutorials and books.

There is an Eclipse plug-in so you have a real IDE

You can run a real debugger.


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From: javamail-bounces at pjug.org [mailto:javamail-bounces at pjug.org] On Behalf Of Richard Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:17 AM
To: javamail at pjug.org
Subject: [PJUG Javamail] So Many Languages, So Little Time

Hi all,

I have a friend who is a project manager.  He gets joys and heartaches associated with seeing that computer games get built on schedule, according to spec, and within budget.  He is not a software guy in the same sense that we are but more of a people and process person.  He has told me a couple of times recently that he wants to learn to do some limited programming and/or scripting.  He's slowly teaching himself AppleScript now.

What language should I recommend he learn, why would you recommend it, and do you have a good source or pointer for tutorials since he'll probably need to do it mostly on his own?  Perl, Ruby, Grails, Java, C, Lisp, Scheme ... something else?

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Richard Johnson


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