[noisy_boy]

Crazy thread indeed; I am writing Groovy code and a past lead of Apache Groovy turns up to pay tribute.

[glaforge]

And in my current project, I'm using Bob's creation, the @Inject annotation that he introduced when he was leading the work on JSR-330!

[noisy_boy]

Thanks for mentioning that - sent me learning more about the nuances of @Inject vs @Autowired (Spring shop here; I gather Bob hated Spring and my feelings about it aren't super warm either).