What sets Ruby apart is a clean and consistent
language design where everything is an object.
I like this part. Assuming I ever finish my last RFC I'd like Perl to
have embedded objects as well. The difference being Perl's wouldn't get
in the way, unlike Python's.
Of particular interest seems
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:07:33AM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote:
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Nathan Wiger wrote:
And then there's the lexical variable issue too:
The default variable scope rules for Ruby (default: local) are
much better suited for medium-to-large scale programming tasks;