> I don't have any practical experience with Ruby, but it looks like a mishmash of Smalltalk and Perl to me Those are, I think, probably the two most influenti

> I don't have any practical experience with Ruby, but it looks like a mishmash of Smalltalk and Perl to me Those are, I think, probably the two most influential sources of inspiration for how the language is put together, in terms of the actual end result.