From: "Grzegorz Chrupała" <grzegorz@...>
Date: 2004-07-19T22:52:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Which compiled language is closest to Ruby?

Gully Foyle wrote:

> 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?

Apart from ML dialects such as SML or Ocaml, there are Lisp variants. These
are also closer to Ruby than ML in that they dynamically typed. Eg:
Common Lisp (supports closures and generic OO with CLOS, most
implementations compile to native code).
Some Schemes, such as Chicken or Bigloo. Both have object systems and
compile to C (and Java in Bigloo's case).
And a less well known Lisp, Dylan.
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