Comparison between Python and "Ruby"

[Paul Eggert]

Jim Althoff <jima at aspectdv.com> writes:

>Absolutely right.  Part of the original dream of the Smalltalk development
>team was to build a programming language/environment that would be so
>easy that anybody -- even kids -- could use it.

Kids?  Kids??  You think _kids_ were the target!?
No way.  The PARC developers were much more ambitious than that.
Smalltalk's design goal was to be so easy
that even _secretaries_ could use it.