Gremlin – an overview

Gremlin is basically a wrapper to Groovy. It provides some nice constructs that make the traversal of graphs efficient. It is an expressive language written by Marko Rodriguez and uses connected operations for the traversal of a graph. Gremlin can be considered Turing complete and has simple and easy-to-understand syntax.

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Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed, and dynamic language, with static typing and static compilation capabilities for the Java platform aimed at multiplying developers' productivity thanks to a concise, familiar, and easy-to-learn syntax. It integrates smoothly with any Java program and immediately delivers to your application powerful features, including scripting capabilities, domain-specific language ...

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