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Re: rough first impressions
- To: Miles Egan <miles@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: rough first impressions
- From: James McCartney <asynth@xxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 23:06:29 -0700
On Sunday, April 13, 2003, at 09:37 AM, Miles Egan wrote:
> * pervasive object orientation
> One of Ruby's big strengths. I think this is the right way to do this.
> * property / member function equivalence
> Aka the Uniform Access Principle. Another of Ruby's inspired moves.
> * collection stuff
> Probably my favorite thing about Ruby is the elegance of it's iteration
> mechanisms and corresponding syntax.
Smalltalk, not Ruby, deserves the credit for these.
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