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If you've ever enjoyed anything about ruby the chances are that it comes from perl.
by JonnieCache 12y ago
If you've ever enjoyed anything about ruby the chances are that it comes from perl.
- skywhopper 12y agoI'd put it a different way: Ruby stole all the useful syntactic shortcuts from Perl and ignored all the cruft and ugliness. Unfortunately the one thing Ruby didn't steal from Perl was its speed.
- sigzero 12y agoHasn't that change in 2.X series?
- JonnieCache 12y agoIt's definitely a lot faster. I still wouldn't call it fast. Of course, most apps are I/O bound, objects in the heap are larger than they appear, blah blah blah.
- untothebreach 12y agoI think most of the good* features of Ruby came from Smalltalk, though you can definitely see the Perl influence. *at least for my definition of "good"
- JonnieCache 12y agoIndeed the object model is from smalltalk. I don't know why I didnt make that caveat.