From Lisp to Ruby to Rubinius
Yukihiro Matsumoto · 2010
The Ruby language has been highly inspired by Lisp since its beginning. In this talk, Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, the creator of the Ruby language explains how Ruby borrowed features from Lisp, and describes briefly a newer implementation of the language named Rubinius, which is written in Ruby itself except for a small core.