Re: rough first impressions

James McCartney <[email protected]> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 23:06:29 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.goo.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sunday, April 13, 2003, at 09:37 AM, Miles Egan wrote:
> * pervasive object orientation
> One of Ruby's big strengths.  I think this is the right way to do this.

> * property / member function equivalence
> Aka the Uniform Access Principle.  Another of Ruby's inspired moves.

> * collection stuff
> Probably my favorite thing about Ruby is the elegance of it's iteration
> mechanisms and corresponding syntax.

Smalltalk, not Ruby, deserves the credit for these.

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