James Strachan Alive
Created Groovy — the JVM's first dynamic scripting language — because Java wouldn't let him read files in one line.
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Created Groovy
Created Groovy (2003) — later said he'd have invented Scala instead if he'd read Odersky's book — then built Apache Camel, ActiveMQ, and ServiceMix.\n\nThe most productive middleware engineer of his generation.