Concurrency for Polyglot Programmers
Today, the word Java stands more for the platform than for the language. The Java Virtual Machine, along with the ubiquitous set of libraries, has evolved into a very powerful platform over the years. At the same time, the Java language is showing its age. Today there are quite a few interesting and powerful languages on the JVM—Clojure, JRuby, Groovy, and Scala, to mention a few.
Some of these modern JVM languages such as Clojure, JRuby, and Groovy are dynamically typed. Some, such as Clojure and Scala, are greatly influenced by a functional style of programming. Yet all of them have one thing in common—they’re concise and highly expressive. Although it may take a bit of effort to get used to their syntax, ...
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