Ruby: Nitty-Gritty

• Natively OO – even literals are objects 3.times { puts 'Hello!' } 'montclair'.capitalize (1..5).each {|n| puts „#{n}!“} /foo/.match 'quux bar foo baz' [1, 2, 3].size

• Single inheritance, 'mixins' for multiple inheritance-like behavior

• Variable sigils reflect object orientation

  • Whereas Perl sigils represent data type