Well, I think it's because Ruby has borrowed a lot of features from Lisp (and Clojure is also a Lisp). Here's an article that argues that it is actually an acce

Well, I think it's because Ruby has borrowed a lot of features from Lisp (and Clojure is also a Lisp). Here's an article that argues that it is actually an acceptable Lisp: http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-an-acceptable-lisp http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-a...