Monday, August 4, 2008

Ruby

Ruby was designed in Japan by Yukishiro Matsumoto and was released in 1996. The primary purpose for designing Ruby for him was to replace the limitaions he found in Pearl and Python for his purposes. http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

Learning Ruby is made easier by its implementation method, pure interpretation.
Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming.
Meaning and benefits of the above are,
  • ability to make operating system calls directly
  • variable declarations are unnceccessary
  • variables are not typed
  • everything is an object

Quick growth of Ruby has been due to the use of Rails, the web application framework that is both written in Ruby and uses Ruby.

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