Re: Why Ruby is popular?

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:00:41 -0700


On 28/08/2006, at 4:10 PM, Ian Joyner wrote:

Quite a bit of talk about Ruby, but I couldn't work out which message to follow up, so here is a new thread.

According to Martin Fowler:

Closures have been around for a long time. I ran into them properly for the first time in Smalltalk where they're called Blocks. Lisp uses them heavily. They're also present in the Ruby scripting language - and are a major reason why many rubyists like using Ruby for scripting.



Groovy also supports closures in a similar way



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