From: Armin Roehrl <armin@...>
Date: 2001-11-24T10:30:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26280] Re: Table: Ruby versus Smalltalk, Objective-C, C++, Java;

Excellent; I updated the table;
http://www.approximity.com/ruby/Comparison_rb_st_m_java.html
> Armin Roehrl wrote:
> > On Saturday 24 November 2001 02:01, James Britt (rubydev) wrote:
> > > What?  No Python?!!  Oh, the natives will be restless ...
> >
> > Email me the entries for Python and I add it at once :-)
> > (or any other language; Common- Lisp?)
>
> Python is the same as Ruby according to your list except:
>
> Inheritance: multiple
> Access to super method (Python 2.1 syntax): super(MyClass,
> self).methodName
> root class: None
>
> Super is not a keyword so you need to tell it what method it is
> syntactically contained in (but then you can use it anywhere you want
> without worrying about syntactic contex)
>
> But there are things you could argue about like private data/methods --
> you can get at them but you need to do extra work to do so(as in most
> other languages). Garbage collection: yes, except in very rare
> situations involving deterministic finalizers in a cyclic loop (which
> finalizers do you run in what order?).
>
>  Paul Prescod

-- 
Armin.

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