At 12:15 PM 4/16/2002 +0100, goran.hultgren at bluefish.se wrote:
>PS. It's funny to see how the scripting languages get closer and closer
>to Smalltalk. Perl -> Python -> Ruby (which is practically a Smalltalk
>in disguise). Nice trend.

Actually, as someone who's hacked both LISP and Smalltalk, Ruby feels more 
LISP-like than Smalltalk-like to me (e.g. things like mixins, and various 
other language features).  One caveat, though: I've only been reading about 
Ruby and haven't yet had a chance to do any real programming with 
Ruby.  But it looks intriguing to me, and pleasing to both my LISP and 
Smalltalk engrams.

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Bob Ingria
As always, at a slight angle to the universe