I have been working with Ruby and PHP for a bit of automation, but I thought I would give Groovy a shot. It turns out Groovy is just as easy.
First follow the steps at CodeHaus to install Scriptom. Then create a groovy file and paste this in.
package com.scottpreston.groovy.com;
import org.codehaus.groovy.scriptom.*;
def write_word() {
def word = new ActiveXObject(”Word.Application”);
word.Visible [...]
I was struggling for a bit on languages, which one to use, there are so many, do I use PHP, Ruby, Groovy, Python, or Jython or JRuby. I have settled on them let me summarize:
PHP - All my web programming will be in this language and my own custom framework.
Java - All my AI & [...]
I was doing some benchmark testing on my robotics programs for vision testing and I got some interesting results. For the most complicated program Java took 5312ms, Groovy took 5453ms, and JRuby took 5531ms.
I was amazed at how close they were given that all the computer shootouts say that Groovy is slow and JRuby is [...]
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