Groovy - Basics

Groovy - A dynamic language for the Java platform

//  Single line comments start with two forward slashes

/*
Multi line comments look like this.
*/

// Hello World
println "Hello world!"

/*
  Variables:

  You can assign values to variables for later use
*/

def x = 1
println x

x = new java.util.Date()
println x

x = -3.1499392
println x

x = false
println x

x = "Groovy!"
println x