From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-07-19T18:47:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Which compiled language is closest to Ruby?

il Mon, 19 Jul 2004 04:17:17 GMT, Gully Foyle
<nospam@nospamnospamnospam.com> ha scritto::

>I am currently using C++ as my compiled language but fell in love with 
>Ruby recently :)
>
>Which compiled language is the closest to ruby?  Are there any that are 
>object-oriented and have support for blocks/closures?
>

Look for some kind of smalltalk. I think they're usually jitted like
Java, but there are some compilers (IIRC Smalltalk/X)