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Thanks, I have heard that! I was curious specifically, though, about "a language that did functional closures so elegantly, uniformly, consistently, and ubiqui

Thanks, I have heard that! I was curious specifically, though, about "a language that did functional closures so elegantly, uniformly, consistently, and ubiquitously as Smalltalk" -- does ruby, with it's smalltalk-inspired blocks, used heavily in stdlib and idiomatic ruby code? If not, where does it fall short in the opinion of a smalltalker? Unless the environment/tooling is part of this?

Qem 5y ago
I'm not sure. I have little familiarity with Ruby, writing my code mostly in Python. But on uniformity, consistency, and ubiquity, at least when compared to Python, I think Smalltalk has the advantage of being implemented in itself, all the way down to the VM. So, once you learn the the language, it's straightforward to study the implementation details of anything inside the system image. On the other hand, when deep-diving in Python, its hard to avoid smashing your head against the C bedrock underneath, as many parts of the language and important modules are just wrappers around C code. I think Ruby may be similar to Python here.