From: gabriele renzi Date: 2004-10-21T06:49:17+09:00 Subject: Re: A concise description of Ruby? Joao Pedrosa ha scritto: >> >>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 !-) > > > That's simplifying too much for Ruby. Python may have that influence, though. > that's simplifying too much for both, but bruno was talking about _main_ influence, and well, ruby and smalltalk are mostly the same language with different syntax ;)