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It's the least sexy name for a programming language this century
by bbcbasic 10y ago
It's the least sexy name for a programming language this century
- scrame 10y agoGroovy won that 10 years ago.
- vorg 10y agoGroovy was named by its creator, James Strachan, in 2003. By 2006 (i.e. 10 years ago), he had been managed out and a business sort without technical knowledge had taken over. He's since slowly wrecked Groovy's sexy brand and placed it firmly in the Java camp. I tried reversing the trend with stuff like "grOOvy", and the Groovy grrrrrrowl, Ooooooooo, and Vy (for "victory") but that business person running Groovy skuttled the effort, appearing far more interested in retaining his centralized control over Groovy branding. Groovy's since been handed over to Apache, being run by a 10-member "Project Management Committee", only 4 of which actually do any technical work on Groovy's code base. The other 6, including the "PMC Chair", just do administrative fuss.