Top five scripting languages on the JVM Groovy and JRuby lead a strong field, with Scala, Fantom, and Jython following behind Anyone who has followed software development tools during the last decade knows that the term "Java" refers to a pair of technologies: the Java programming language and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The Java language is compiled into bytecodes that run on the JVM. Through
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