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probably did... ruby took a lot from perl... also took a lot from many other languages but perl probably the most
by weaksauce 4y ago
probably did... ruby took a lot from perl... also took a lot from many other languages but perl probably the most
- lilith_of_debts 4y agoFun fact: Matz was a lisper prior to creating ruby. He even wrote an email client entirely in Emacs lisp. Not wrong that ruby took a lot from perl, but it was heavily influenced by lisp and smalltalk and I'd personally argue those are the two largest influences. It does seem that ruby was specifically designed to grab Perl programmers though. Several features match exactly.