> nothing to do with Ruby features. How about this part: > Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his > favorite languages (Perl, Smallt

> nothing to do with Ruby features. How about this part: > Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his > favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) > to form a new language that balanced functional programming > with imperative programming. Taken from https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/about/ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/about/ . Being out of the scene does not mean that it could no longer inspire.