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		jhbadger on Oct 21, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pharo: An immersive programming experience Or non-hypothetically, integers in Ruby -- 5.methods shows that 5 is an object just like anything else. But then Ruby has been called a modern Smalltalk for this reason.

pjmlp on Oct 21, 2018 [–]

With the difference that cruffy Smalltalk still has better JITs available.

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