The Hello World version of the program in Groovy! A dynamic language for the JVM runtime with a very Java-like syntax.
By the way, you can see my previous post here: http://carlosqt.blogspot.com/2010/06/oo-hello-world.html
where I give some details on WHY these "OO Hello World series" samples.
Version 1 (Minimal):
The minimum you need to type to get your program compiled and running.
class Greet {
  def name
  Greet(name) { 
      this.name = name[0].toUpperCase() + name[1..-1]
  }
  def salute() { 
      println "Hello $name!"
  }
}
// Greet the world! 
g = new Greet('world')  
g.salute()
Version 2 (Verbose):
Explicitly adding instructions and keywords that are optional to the compiler.
package GreetProgram
private class Greet {
  private def name
  public def Greet(name) { 
      this.name = name[0].toUpperCase() + name[1..-1]
  }
  public def salute() { 
      println "Hello $name!"
  }
}
// Greet the world! 
g = new Greet('world')  
g.salute()
The Program Output:
Groovy Info:
“Groovy is an object-oriented programming language for the Java platform. It is a dynamic language with features similar to those of Python, Ruby, Perl, and Smalltalk. It can be used as a scripting language for the Java Platform.
Groovy uses a Java-like bracket syntax. It is dynamically compiled to Java Virtual Machine bytecode and interoperates with other Java code and libraries. Most Java code is also syntactically valid Groovy.” Taken from: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_(programming_language))
Appeared: 
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2003 
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Current Version: 
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1.7.5 and 1.8 Beta 2  (latest version in "Languages" page)  
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Developed by: 
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Guillaume Laforge 
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Creator: 
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Guillaume Laforge 
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Influenced by: 
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Java (James Gosling) 
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Predecessor Language 
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Predecessor Appeared 
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Predecessor Creator 
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Runtime Target: 
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JVM 
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Latest Framework Target: 
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JDK 6 
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Mono Target: 
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No 
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Allows Unmanaged Code: 
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No 
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Source Code Extension: 
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“.groovy” 
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Keywords: 
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57 
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Case Sensitive: 
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Yes 
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Free Version Available: 
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Yes 
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Open Source: 
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Yes 
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Standard: 
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JSR 241 
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Latest IDE Support: 
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NetBeans 
Eclipse 
IntelliJ IDEA 
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Language Reference: 
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Extra Info: 
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