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Comment by ddellacosta

3 days ago

Given that Matz considers both Perl and Lisp an influence, what's your take on Ruby? If homoiconicity is something you care about it's probably dissatisfying, but it's got a lot of very functional aspects at the same time.

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lambdaba  2 days ago

"Ruby is the love child of Lisp and Smalltalk, raised by Perl the eccentric nanny" - Josh Susser

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