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JamesSwifttoday at 1:58 PM1 replyview on HN

> obj-c runtime dynamism is fascinating. it’s like, “what if we make C as dynamic as Ruby”.

Well thats because objc and ruby are cousins. Both are sort of the only two smalltalk based languages out there


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JadeNBtoday at 2:13 PM

> Well thats because objc and ruby are cousins. Both are sort of the only two smalltalk based languages out there

I'm sure you can trace connections, at least in ideas, but I think Ruby is way more Perl-based than Smalltalk-based.

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