Paul Prescod <paulp / ActiveState.com> wrote in message news:<4di77.17718$YK4.1545491 / e420r-atl1.usenetserver.com>...
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> In terms of competitiveness, Ruby's Perl and Smalltalk heritage is a
> great advantage. I get the impression that the Ruby community has picked
> up some Smalltalk adherents and certainly many, many Perl adherents. If
> anything helps Ruby to surpass Python it will be that. If Perl 6 does
> not live up to people's expectations or takes too long, Ruby may pick up
> more of the bored Perl hackers than Python does just because of
> familiarity.
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Paul, I can back up your opinion that Ruby has picked up some
Smalltalk admirers. Your opinions on this thread and others (such as
on c.l.py) make good, objective (excuse the pun) sense imo.

Yours

Chris