From: bruno modulix <onurb@...>
Date: 2004-11-04T07:18:46+09:00
Subject: Re: A concise description of Ruby?

Reimer Behrends a �crit :
> 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;

"""
Actually, my initial goal for Python was to serve as a second language 
for people who were C or C++ programmers, but who had work where writing 
a C program was just not effective.
"""
http://www.artima.com/intv/pyscale.html

(snip)

Well... What I was thinking of was more a matter of paradigm and idioms 
  (err... not the right words neither - sorry, English is not my 
mother's language) than a matter of syntax or data types.

<troll>
But for sure, Ruby is much more closer to Smalltalk (who said 'copycat' 
?-) than Python is to C.
</troll>

Bruno