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Re: Ruby's lisp features.
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Subject: ****Re: Ruby's lisp features.
From: **Yukihiro Matsumoto **<matz@ b l g r
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:43:02 +0900
In-reply-to: 179515
Hi,
In message "Re: Ruby's lisp features."
on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:38:18 +0900, Edward Kenworthy <edward / kenworthy.info> writes:
|I've been programming for more years than I care to remember and am
|enjoying programming in Ruby (especially on Rails). So far I've found
|nothing "new" (to me) in Ruby, with the exception of the lisp-like
|features and that's something I'd really like to explore.
|Anyone able to point me to a resource please?
Ruby is a language designed in the following steps:
* take a simple lisp language (like one prior to CL).
* remove macros, s-expression.
* add simple object system (much simpler than CLOS).
* add blocks, inspired by higher order functions.
* add methods found in Smalltalk.
* add functionality found in Perl (in OO way).
So, Ruby was a Lisp originally, in theory.
Let's call it MatzLisp from now on. ;-)
matz.