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Ruby is a general-purpose programming language.

Description

Ruby supports multiple programming paradigms, including:

• Functional programming
• Object-oriented programming
• imperative

It also has a dynamic type system and automatic memory management.

History

Ruby was designed and developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan.

According to its authors, Ruby was influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp.

See also

• General-purpose programming language
• Programming language

External links

• Ruby (programming language) @ Wikipedia