From: pjb@... (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Date: 2009-07-31T17:40:09+09:00 Subject: Re: How Come Ruby is Text-Oriented? Mike Stephens writes: > I've just been re-reading Byte August 1981 - an edition dedicated to > Smalltalk-80. Often people say Ruby has roots in Smalltalk (amongst > other things) but the thing you notice is Smalltalk is visual ie it has > a graphical interface. How is it that 28 years later we work by typing > text into an editor? Because Smalltalk, it was in the 5th generation of the Matrix. Now we're in the 6th generation, and we're doing it again almost all the same. Well, we use Ruby for Smalltalk and Python for Lisp, etc, but really it's all the same. Don't worry, soon we will see Ruby Graphic Environments and they will be a big novelty. It's necessary for the One to become aware and reset the world once again. Strangely enough there are some ghosts surviving the previous generations who still use Smalltalk or Lisp. They've got unbelievable powers. Have a look at http://www.squeak.org/ and http://www.opencroquet.org -- __Pascal Bourguignon__