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I didn't say it was the ultimate enlightenment language, I said it was the ultimate object-oriented language. There's no such thing as an ultimate approach to enlightenment.

Smalltalk's nice, but Ruby's nicer. There's a reason one's more popular than the other.



Smalltalk was already out of the scene when Rails happened, nothing to do with Ruby features.


  > nothing to do with Ruby features.
How about this part:

  > Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his
  > favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp)
  > to form a new language that balanced functional programming
  > with imperative programming.
Taken from https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/about/ . Being out of the scene does not mean that it could no longer inspire.


Yes and that reason is Rails, not because ruby is more "enlightened" than smalltalk.


Why didn't they write Rails in Smalltalk?




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