From: Reimer Behrends <behrends@...>
Date: 2004-10-21T06:14:17+09:00
Subject: Re: A concise description of Ruby?

bruno modulix (onurb@xiludom.gro) wrote:
[...]
>  IMHO, the biggets difference is that the 'main' influence (well... the 
>  most obvious...) is C for Python and Smalltalk for Ruby (oh, and yes : 
>  most pythonistas think of Perl as one of the most horrible thing in the 
>  world !-)

I very much doubt that C ever was a strong influence for Python's
design; Python's roots lie in ABC [1], a teaching language developed at
CWI, and there is some additional Modula-3 influence. Recent (post 1.5)
additions draw on features available in yet other languages, such as
Icon and Sather, but not C, either.

			Reimer Behrends

[1] http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/