"Tom Malone" <tom / tom-malone.com> wrote in message news:eD%67.13347$4v6.1114615 / e420r-atl3.usenetserver.com... > Someone please tell me if this is an inappropriate question for this list - > I don't want to irritate or offend anyone here. > What is the benefit of a true object-oriented language (Ruby), in which > everything is an object, as opposed to, say (arbitrarily) a language that is > not strictly object-oriented (yet is still popular) like Java? > > Forgive the newbie his ignorance =) You might want to look over the following paper: What is an Object-Oriented Programming Language? http://www.research.att.com/~kfisher/files/whatis.ps Abstract: http://www.research.att.com/~kfisher/abstracts.html/#Whatis From: http://www.research.att.com/~kfisher/publications.html -- -- Dave S. [ http://www.smallscript.net ] Smalltalk for the AOS Platform and The Microsoft.NET Framework > > Tom