Ruby and Smalltalk

Ruby has so much inspiration from the Smalltalk!

Here are my findings:

• Inspect method actually opens an inspector for the object in Smalltalk, Ruby just tries to show object’s guts
• collect, select are methods for collections from the Smalltalk
• do for collection in Smalltalk is the same what’s in Ruby each
• block parameter in «pipes» in Ruby is very similar to Smalltalk
• super is calling the superclass parent method
• initialize is a constructor name for the class in Smalltalk
• keywords concept has slightly different syntax, but the meaning is the same
• « method
• Ruby object.send method = Smaltalk object perform: method
• the self keyword means the same in Smalltalk and Ruby