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I’d say Ruby’s closest sibling is Smalltalk personally.
by Gaelan 9y ago
I’d say Ruby’s closest sibling is Smalltalk personally.
- kazinator 9y agoPeople say this mainly because of the brace-enclosed blocks of code being functions. However, that is really just a syntactic sugar for lambda (and can even have explicit arguments: (lambda (x y) ...) <--> {|x,y| ... }.
- zem 9y agothere's the "everything is objects and messages sent to them" bit too, which is definitely from smalltalk. ruby took the good bits from several languages.