What is the knowledge/skill level of the audience?I’m taking about Groovy, not time to cover Hadoop as wellDisclaimer: I am a Groovy user, not an Expert.
How to describe Groovy? It depends on what you are doing with it? You can look at it and come to different conclusions based on your useIt's like Java with the datatypes they forgotIt's got ruby concepts (closures), keywords from python, and dynamic 'duck' typingIt lets you do things in the JVM that the original Java authors didn't expect
It's a map and reduce -in the reduce. Turtles all the way down. Or at least elephants.