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> Ruby is a true blooded OO language in the spirit of Smalltalk. Perl
> is not. Ruby invites to OO design, perl less so since it's been

So would a rewrite in Objective-C be more viable since

a) this is also an OO language in the spirit of smalltalk
b) it is already part of the base system

I also wrote a set of small foundation-kit type objects too which I
would be happy to donate to this.

-pcf.

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