Since Lisp, Smalltalk and Matz came up, I remembered what Matz said[1]: Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that. But it is ni

Since Lisp, Smalltalk and Matz came up, I remembered what Matz said[1]: Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/quotes.html http://www.paulgraham.com/quotes.html