| Ruby user's guide |
What is ruby? |
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Ruby is "an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy
object-oriented programming"; what does this mean?
- interpreted scripting language
- ability to make operating system calls directly
- powerful string operations and regular expressions
- immediate feedback during development
- quick and easy
- variable declarations are unnecessary
- variables are not typed
- syntax is simple and consistent
- memory management is automatic
- object oriented programming
- everything is an object
- classes, inheritance, methods, etc.
- singleton methods
- mixin by module
- iterators and closures
- other ...
- multiple precision integers
- exception processing model
- dynamic loading
- threads
If you are unfamiliar with some of the concepts above, read on, and
don't worry. The mantra of the ruby language is quick and
easy.