RE: [MLUG] text to images?

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Ian Monroe wrote:

> I've never heard that before. You may be thinking of Rebol.
>
> It is written in C.
>
> Its pretty nifty. Its based off of Python and Perl (so you perl folks
> can't take all the credit for it.) Everything in it is an object, even
> integers.

The one thing about Ruby that I don't like is the bizarro fact that it
lets you do stupid things like change the value of an integer in its
endeavor to be more OO than anybody else.  Gag.  On the other hand, the
object system is very interesting (in particular, classes are never closed
or frozen, so you can do things like add extra methods to a standard
class without any big pain, and a lot of stuff that gets handled dorkily
by inheritance in lots of OO languages is done via mixins in Ruby).

The resulting language is pretty striking; you can write comprehensible
yet very powerful one-liners or reasonably modular fairly large systems.

jking


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