Description:

Created by Yukihiro Matsumoto, the Ruby programming language blends his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balances functional programming with imperative programming. The project Web site quotes him as saying he is “trying to make Ruby natural, not simple, in a way that mirrors life".

In Ruby, everything is an object. Every bit of information and code can be given properties and actions. Object-oriented programming calls properties by the name instance variables and actions are known as methods.

Ruby gives users a choice between the Ruby License and the GNU General Public License V2.

Usage Notes:

Use Ruby to simplify the development of Web applications and streamline writing shell scripts. Prototyping and the production of real industrial strength applications can be accomplished with relative ease.