November 28, 2025 The creator of Ruby — Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto — has acknowledged that Ruby draws from a mosaic of languages: Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada and Lisp. In his “Ruby And Its Neighbors” series, Noel Rappin turns to Lisp to reflect on what parts of Lisp — if any — live on in Ruby … Continue reading Ruby and Lisp — What Ruby Borrowed from Lisp’s Spirit →