Re: FYI: Ruby 1.6.0 - An object-oriented language for quick and easy programming

2000-09-19 Thread Nathan Wiger
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

Re: FYI: Ruby 1.6.0 - An object-oriented language for quick and easy programming

2000-09-19 Thread Adam Turoff
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;