Projects like these are awesome learning experiences. I've been working on something similar (rubyisms in php) but in pure php - https://github.com/shuber/phuby

Projects like these are awesome learning experiences. I've been working on something similar (rubyisms in php) but in pure php - https://github.com/shuber/phuby https://github.com/shuber/phuby * mixins * classes are objects * eigenclasses * method_missing, respond_to, respond_to_missing, send, super * splat * extended, included, inherited callbacks Definitely made me appreciate ruby more after working on it.