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From: mockturtle <framefritti@gmail.com>
Subject: Ruby and Ada
Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 01:46:06 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <507c49ee-3874-477f-9b20-3396daa5d563n@googlegroups.com> (raw)

As you can guess, my language of choice is Ada, but for small things (often "fast and dirty") or to extract stuff from text files, I use Ruby which I prefer over its direct competitor (much more popular) Python.

Then I read this [1]

> Its [of Ruby] creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, combined parts of his
> favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp)

This could explain the affinity... (Matz is an Adaist! :-))

[1] https://dev.to/rodmatola/ruby-the-best-language-for-general-automation-gh3

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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-14  8:46 mockturtle [this message]
2022-05-14 12:53 ` Ruby and Ada Gautier write-only address
2022-05-14 13:40 ` Robin Vowels
2022-05-19  7:40   ` srOmatic
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