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> what makes ruby unique and awesome, BLOCKS!

Similar to blocks in Smalltalk and Self, surely?

Still, having worked with ruby a fair bit the past year, it does deliver much of what Smalltalk does (not surprising, as ruby borrows heavily from smalltalk).

https://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual/html_node/Invo...




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