From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2004-10-21T03:44:17+09:00
Subject: Re: A concise description of Ruby?

Simon Strandgaard ha scritto:
> On Wednesday 20 October 2004 14:47, Curt Hibbs wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>>So, I wanted to ask all of you, what would your answer be to the question
>>"What is Ruby"?
> 
> 
> Ruby allows to you enhance the builtin string class with you own methods,
> which you can invoke  "im a string".own_method
> 
> Thats the sentence I use most.
> I don't know if there are other languages that allow for this?
> 

python does, and I /think/ smalltalk. And prototype based OO languages 
rely on this ;)