Grails creator Graeme Rocher tells us what’s special about the web framework and how it offers developers the best of the Java and the scripting world.

He also talks of how Groovy and Grails complement Java and also when it would be madness to think of using a scripting language over a language like Java.

With MyHDL, you can use Python as a hardware description and verification language also you can convert implementation-oriented MyHDL code to Verilog

Jim Hugunin, IronPython’s creator and now a Microsoft employee discussed and demonstrated IronPython on MSDN TV.

According to Brian, Python programs run faster than Ruby. He tried to implement the Edit-Distance algorithm in three different ways in both Python and in Ruby and he conclude that the python is very much faster than Ruby. Lets see the comparison.

Mark Lutz, author of the O’Reilly’s fameous books Programming Python and Python Pocket Reference will guide students.