“I wanted a scripting language that was more powerful than Perl, and more object-oriented than Python" and "Ruby's class library is an object-oriented reorganization of Perl functionality--plus some Smalltalk and Lisp stuff" (see "An Interview with the Creator of Ruby", 2001, https://web.archive.org/web/20041220041220/http://www.linuxd...).
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“I wanted a scripting language that was more powerful than Perl, and more object-oriented than Python" and "Ruby's class library is an object-oriented reorganization of Perl functionality--plus some Smalltalk and Lisp stuff" (see "An Interview with the Creator of Ruby", 2001, https://web.archive.org/web/20041220041220/http://www.linuxd...).