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by Huw Collingbourne.
Original Post: Is Ruby The New Smalltalk?
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I've lost count of the number of times I've heard people comparing Ruby and Smalltalk. In programming books, blogs, newsgroups and magazines articles, the close affinity with the two languages often seems to be taken for granted. But how close are they really...? Smalltalk/V - state of the art circa 1993 The first Smalltalk system I ever used was Smalltalk/V from a company called Digitalk. That was back in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. Prior to that I had (...)