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Comment by vorg

11 years ago

> "Groovy" has been associated with the psychedelic-drug-using subculture, but we've had no trouble naming a programming language after it.

A lot more people object to Groovy's "G-Strings", its name for interpolated strings, than the "Groovy" name. org.codehaus.groovy's Project Manager even introduced a new operator called "Elvis" (the null-coalescing operator) in an attempt to redefine the meaning of "G-String" from the item of clothing to a string on Elvis's guitar to deflect objections but no-one's fooled.