Sure, we programmers spontaneously study programming languages while waiting for flights

[text] 11 The Groovy story At Groovy One 2004a gathering of Groovy developers in LondonJames Strachan gave a keynote address telling the story of how he arrived at the idea of inventing Groovy. e and his wife were waiting for a late plane. While she went shopping he visited an internet cafe and spontaneously decided to go to the Python website and study the language In the course of this activity he became more and more intrigued. Being a seasonedava programmer he recognized that his home language lacked many of the interesting and useful features Python had invented such as native language support for common datatypes in an expressive syntax and more important dynamic behav ior. The idea was born to bring such features to Java.