So, you want to learn few scripting and dynamically typed language(s) for the Java platform? The following will get a Java programmer started with Groovy and (J)Ruby. It is said that you can write Fortran in any language! While you still have to learn language specific idioms, naming, coding conventions/styles etc., the table below would help you with "quick start". To re-iterate: you need to pick up language specific idioms as Reg Braithwaite notes in his comment below.
I wrote simple script samples and tried the same with command line wrappers of jrunscript. If you CVS checked out script engines from scripting.dev.java.net, these scripts are in
bindirectories of respective script engine directories. I used Groovy 1.0 JSR 06 and JRuby 0.9.0 versions respectively.
A. Sundararajan's Weblog
NetBeans is paying a lot more attention to dynamic languages than eclipse foundation
