Hi, 

In message "[ruby-talk:00895] Re: Contrast Ruby and Other Languages"
    on 99/11/01, Clemens Hintze <clemens.hintze / alcatel.de> writes:

>- Ruby is an complete OOL. That mean all in Ruby is an object. Not in
>  the sense of Python or Perl. But in the sense of Smalltalk. The
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This may confuse some people because *all* in Smalltalk is an object,
even controls.  Indeed, one of my friends mistook in this point; He
believed that even a control in Ruby are an object after he had heard
Matz's talk (I've corrected his misunderstanding, then he looks being
disappointed little). 

-- gotoken