Groovy, a scripting language targeted for JVM, was mentioned in Slashdot 
today.

  http://groovy.codehaus.org/

Any comments? It seems to borrow some stuffs from Ruby, like closure 
(which is very much like Ruby's block), the =~ regex matching operator, 
and even the "Principle of Least Surprise". But syntax-wise it's 
basically a mixture of Python, Ruby, and Java. It has some stuffs that 
Ruby doesn't currently have like keyword arguments, easier embedding, 
and native threads, but it's still not Ruby :-)

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dave