Comparison between Python and "Ruby"

[Jim Althoff]

At 03:42 AM 11/3/99 +0000, Neel Krishnaswami wrote:
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>
>The differences are that there's less of a closed-world attitude in
>Python than in the ST world, though -- Python can be used for sysadmin
>work where ST (even Squeak) wouldn't be a natural fit. But on the flip
>side Smalltalk has always had a stronger focus on UI and dev
>environments.  This is changing, though -- the ST culture is beginning
>to value the ability to deal with the world outside the system image,
>and Guido's latest enthusiasm is "computer programming for everybody"
>(which is a very ST-ish sort of idea).

Absolutely right.  Part of the original dream of the Smalltalk development
team was to build a programming language/environment that would be so
easy that anybody -- even kids -- could use it.  Hence the name "Smalltalk".

Jim