[Roboprog]

For all of its warts, Groovy really makes much of this more tolerable in an environment that readily interoperates (call either way in/out) with legacy Java code.

Java file handling with dozens of classes still seems a horrific solution, like you said. I don't miss having to constantly check return codes and "errno", vs getting IOException, but I do miss the simplicity some days of "FILE *" and fopen()/popen(). (I also don't miss maintaining code that FAILS to check error codes while doing I/O)

Thanks for your replies, by the way. Thoughtful without being combative.

[vorg]

> For all of its warts, Groovy really makes much of this more tolerable in an environment that readily interoperates (call either way in/out) with legacy Java code.

5 yrs ago Groovy had the best interop with Java, and its promoters said so often, but things have changed a lot since then. Perhaps now you'll find another language has all the interop you need but without those warts.

[abc_lisper]

He hee. I'm glad you think so.