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Groovy was originally designed as a scripting language intended for manipulating and testing classes written in a statically-typed language, Java, in which substantial apps should be written. Only later did new managers of Groovy start promoting it for building systems even though it wasn't suitable for that. A better test would be rewriting a substantial Java app in Haskell.


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