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Re:Ask HN: What does Ruby have that Python doesn't? by ajross on Friday August 22, 2008 @02:32PM (#284018)
As does nasal: http://plausible.org/nasal

That's my own language, and quite obscure (FlightGear uses it, and I've done quite a bit with it personally). But if you want to include Lua too, we might as well be consistent. I was trying to stay within languages with which most readers here would be familiar.

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Re:Ask HN: What does Ruby have that Python doesn't? by nostrademons on Friday August 22, 2008 @02:42PM (#284034)
As does Eve (http://eve-language.blogspot.com/), as long as we're throwing out pet languages. ;-) Though I just redid virtually everything about Eve (changed it from a multiple-dispatch functional language to a single-dispatch prototype-based functional language) and haven't yet pushed the changes to GitHub.

For that matter, Ocaml/Haskell/Erlang all get it right, and those are not pet languages. And Cecil and Dylan almost get it right, but have some complications introduced by multimethods. So it's really just the popular languages tha screw up.

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