1 Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and
2 easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to
3 process text files and to do system management tasks (as in
4 Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.
6 Features of Ruby are shown below.
9 + *Normal* Object-Oriented features(ex. class, method calls)
10 + *Advanced* Object-Oriented features(ex. Mix-in, Singleton-method)
11 + Operator Overloading
13 + Iterators and Closures
15 + Dynamic Loading of Object files(on some architecture)
16 + Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS,
17 Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.)
19 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/