From: leikind@... (Yuri Leikind)
Date: 2002-09-20T02:41:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Python the new Lisp, what about Ruby then?

web2ed@yahoo.com (Edward Wilson) wrote in message news:<5174eed0.0209181458.668023da@posting.google.com>...
> I've been reading that Python is the new lisp.
> 
> For those Lispers in the crowd, how does Ruby compare with Lisp?  I'm
> not concerned about the compilers and interpreters, but more about the
> samantic limitations or freedoms of each.
> 
> I know Matz hacked on Lisp before inventing Ruby, so I can only
> imagine that if Lisp had something worth holding onto Ruby would
> certainly provide it.

Of course Ruby is closer to Lisp than Python.

Even Lisp old-timers agree.

Read this:

http://groups.google.com/groups?&hl=ru&lr=&ie=UTF-8&inlang=ru&selm=aku876%242822%241%40serv2.vsi.ru&rnum=1

Yuri Leikind