From: Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
Date: 2005-04-25T16:54:29+09:00
Subject: Re: [EVALUATION] - E04 - Mr. Yukihiro Matsumoto (Ruby's Weakest Point)

Jon A. Lambert wrote:
> Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
> 
>> Maybe one day Ruby becomes Efficient, Straightforward and Constistend.
>> And most important: _really_ fully OO based.
> 
> I didn't even realize Ruby was OO.  Ruby is a fun procedural language.  
> I gotta admit though, that those class thingies are somewhat useful as 
> syntactic sugar.  

The Creator of Ruby

Yukihiro Matsumoto,

writes

"
# Ruby is a complete, full, pure object oriented language: OOL. This 
means all data in Ruby is an object, in the sense of Smalltalk: no 
exceptions. Example: In Ruby, the number 1 is an instance of class Fixnum.
# Ruby's OO is carefully designed to be both complete and open for 
improvements. Example: Ruby has the ability to add methods to a class, 
or even to an instance during runtime. So, if needed, an instance of one 
class *can* behave differently from other instances of the same class.
"
source: http://ruby-lang.org/en/20020101.html

-

so, Species "simulated stupidity", please do not spread missleading 
information, just to have a nice intro for your "FART":

> What you may be really looking for is some sort of 
> language designer who can also be a father figure to you.  I could be 
> that. I'd be willing to adopt you.   There'll be lots of rules though.  
> Follow me, close your eyes, click your heels together and pull my 
> finger.  We'll create a new language together.
> 
> FART  (Fictive is not Another Ruby Tongue)
> 
> -- 
> J. Lambert

..

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