From: wsdngtmp@... (Sascha Doerdelmann)
Date: 2004-07-23T22:27:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Which compiled language is closest to Ruby?

Gully Foyle <nospam@nospamnospamnospam.com> 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?

D (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/) is very similar to C++ and has
dynamic closures, garbage collector and some other features. It's not
close to Ruby but it's closer than C++.

Next thing I'd take into account is Jamis' suggestion Groovy
(http://groovy.codehaus.org/). But this might be more interesting for
someone coming from Java.

As Gabriele already said: Smalltalk comes in many flavours. Smalltalk
MT (e. g. http://www.genify.com/whatisSTMT.htm) creates small
executables on Win32.

Cheers
Sascha