There is also this gem of a quote by him[1]: > I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming in Scala book by by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill

There is also this gem of a quote by him[1]: > I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming in Scala book by by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I'd probably have never created Groovy. [1] http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-replacement-for.html http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-repl...