From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-01-31T23:15:54+09:00
Subject: Re: nil question

David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, William James wrote:
> >
> > Matz and many Ruby gurus think that Ruby incorporates the best
> > features of preceding languages (e.g., Awk, Perl, Python, Smalltalk).
> > But how many of these people ever used Icon?
> 
> Ruby does incorporate ideas from many languages, but that doesn't mean
> that every existing language has a quota of space in Ruby that it gets
> to fill :-)

Well put :)

(Besides which, if Icon has a free space to fill, there's always suspend.)

martin