Ruby (programming language)

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Not to be confused with Ruby on Rails.
Ruby
Ruby logo.svg
Paradigm(s) multi-paradigm: object-oriented, imperative, functional, reflective
Appeared in 1995
Designed by Yukihiro Matsumoto
Developer Yukihiro Matsumoto, et al.
Stable release 2.1.3 / September 19, 2014 (2014-09-19)[1]
Typing discipline duck, dynamic
Scope lexical, sometimes dynamic
Major implementations Ruby MRI, YARV, Rubinius, MagLev, JRuby, MacRuby, RubyMotion, HotRuby, IronRuby, mruby
Influenced by Ada,[2] C++,[2] CLU,[3] Dylan,[3] Eiffel,[2] Lisp,[3] Perl,[3] Python,[3] Smalltalk[3]
Influenced D,[4] Elixir, Falcon, Fancy,[5] Groovy, Ioke,[6] Mirah, Nu,[7] Reia
OS Cross-platform
License Ruby License or BSD License[8][9]
Usual filename extensions .rb, .rbw
Website www.ruby-lang.org

Wikibooks logo Ruby Programming at Wikibooks

Ruby is a language in text used to tell machines what to do - a programming language. Ruby was created in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan.

It looks like the English language, like the language you are reading now. It has more qualities:

  • Terse. Short, but still easy to understand.
  • Dynamic. Easy to change, any time and any where.
  • Duck typing. If you think you understand it, you probably understand it.

Many programmers like it because the creator tried to make it easy and nice to use.[10]

References[change | change source]

  1. ↑ "Ruby 2.1.3 Released". ruby-lang.org. 2014-09-19. https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/09/19/ruby-2-1-3-is-released/. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Cooper, Peter (2009). Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional. Beginning from Novice to Professional (2nd ed.). Berkeley: APress. p. 101. ISBN 1-4302-2363-4 . "To a lesser extent, Python, LISP, Eiffel, Ada, and C++ have also influenced Ruby."
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Bini, Ola (2007). Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects: Bringing Ruby on Rails to Java. Berkeley: APress. p. 3. ISBN 1-59059-881-4 . "It draws primarily on features from Perl, Smalltalk, Python, Lisp, Dylan, and CLU."
  4. ↑ Intro – D Programming Language 1.0 – Digital Mars
  5. ↑ Bertels, Christopher (23 February 2011). "Introduction to Fancy". Rubinius blog. Engine Yard. http://rubini.us/2011/02/23/introduction-to-fancy/. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
  6. ↑ Bini, Ola. "Ioke". Ioke.org. http://ioke.org/. Retrieved 2011-07-21. "inspired by Io, Smalltalk, Lisp and Ruby"
  7. ↑ Burks, Tim. "About Nu™". Programming Nu™. Neon Design Technology, Inc.. http://programming.nu/about. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
  8. ↑ COPYING in Ruby official source repository
  9. ↑ BSDL in Ruby official source repository
  10. ↑ "About ruby". http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/about/.

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