[ Thanks to Mike
Linksvayer for this link. ]
“Author Maya Stodte looks at Ruby, a pure object-oriented
scripting language, which has successfully seduced Python and Perl
users in Japan. Ruby is now beginning to make its
international debut, touting elegant syntax, single inheritance,
straightforward OO features, true closures, and an iterator more
extensive than most call-back routines. Below Maya looks at the
language’s profile in depth, providing code comparisons to Perl,
and trying to illuminate some of the features that have so
entranced Japanese programmers for the past few years.”
“Based on the syntax of Eiffel and Ada, the power of C, the
functions of Python, and the diversity of Perl, Ruby really is an
attempt to combine the best of everything. And rumor has it that
Yukihiro Matsumoto, affectionately known as Matz, has interwoven
Ruby with a mysterious spell to keep us coming back for more. Ruby
has, at the very least, been showing up Python in Japan for quite
some time.”