http://lifeisgrand.disqus.com/enFri, 13 Oct 2006 12:10:48 -0000http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/05/11/literally-ruby/#comment-1280381<p>Yup, JavaScript does it too (I think.) Going into the histories of what language pinched what feature from what language is crazy though.</p>Paul WatsonFri, 13 Oct 2006 12:10:48 -0000http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/05/11/literally-ruby/#comment-1280380<p>Forgive me if this is obvious, but single-quote 'just-a-string' and double quote "$variable interpolation" behavour has been present Perl for oh... ages, with and without curly braces. If I understand the history of Ruby aright, some Perl functionality made its way into Ruby. Which (as an occasional 'web programmer' dabbling in Ruby) I like.</p>DaveEverittFri, 13 Oct 2006 08:27:58 -0000