On 8/6/05, Damien Cassou <cassou at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
> Ruby   is  a  programming   language  which   seduce  more   and  more
> developpers. It seems that the main programmer of Ruby was a Smalltalk
> developper before and has tried to enhance Smalltalk.
> 
> However,  some Smalltalk  developers told  me  that ruby  has lots  of
> design problems.
> 
> What do you think about Ruby ? Is it better ? Any advantages/drawbacks
> with Smalltalk ?

I wrote about one difference - the most important difference, IMO -
between Ruby and Smalltalk in "Turtles all the way down":

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/avi/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3284695382

Cheers,
Avi