2nd Edition YOUR FREE GUIDE TO PROGRAMMING RUBY
Ruby is a cross-platform interpreted language which has many features in common with other ‘’scripting” languages such as Perl and Python. However, its version of object orientation is more thorough than those languages and, in many respects, it has more in common with the great-granddaddy of ”pure” OOP languages, Smalltalk. The Ruby language was created by Yukihiro Matsumoto (commonly known as ”Matz”) and it was first released in 1995.
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Programming in Ruby
Take the pure object-orientation of Smalltalk, but remove the quirky syntax and the reliance on a workspace. Add in the convenience and power of Perl, but without all the special cases and magic conversions. Wrap it up in a clean syntax based in part of Eiffel, and add a few concepts from Scheme, CLU, Sather, and Common Lisp. You end up with Ruby, a language that is already more popular than Python in its native Japan.
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