He simply said that had Scala already existed... Actually, Scala did already exist when Groovy was created. What Strachan really said is this: "I can honestl

He simply said that had Scala already existed... Actually, Scala did already exist when Groovy was created. What Strachan really said is this: "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." - http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-replacement-for.html http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-repl... That said, I still think Groovy and Grails are a potent combination for increasing productivity in traditional Java shops.