alt Hacker News> 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.
> 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.
Im talking the fundamental language framework. 'Everything is an object' and method calls are actually message passing are the two reasons that objc and ruby are actually smalltalks.