[FYI] Perl vs Squeak/Smalltalk

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Sat Jan 19 01:13:30 UTC 2002


>>>>> "Desquilbet," == Desquilbet, Jerome <jdesquilbet at rational.com> writes:

Desquilbet,> Ruby (a Perl competitor - http://www.ruby-lang.org/ )has blocks too, for a
Desquilbet,> long time... It has been inspired by Smalltalk a lot.

And Larry Wall in designing Perl 6, is well aware of Ruby's design,
and somewhat familiar with Smalltalk.



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