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Groovy is a fully fledged object-oriented (OO) language supporting all of the OO programming concepts that are familiar to Java developers: classes, objects, interfaces, inheritance, polymorphism, and others. Groovy is a pure OO language in which everything is an object. Don’t let the fact that you can write scripts in Groovy fool you; the Groovy compiler will convert such scripts into Java classes of type groovy. lang. Script.
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© 2009 Bashar Abdul-Jawad
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(2009). Object-Oriented Groovy. In: Groovy and Grails Recipes. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1601-8_4
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