Ruby versus Smalltalk versus Objective-C versus C++ versus Java versus Python versus CLOS versus Perl5 versus XOTcl Thanks to the following people for helping/correcting mistakes: Stefan Schmiedl (checking all and Lisp column), Clemens Hintze, Albert Wagner, Paul Prescod (Python column), Mathieu Bouchard (Perl5 column), Clemens Wyss,Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath, Michael Austin (Objective-C), Mark Au