Ruby (programming language)

Ruby is a general-purpose programming language.

Description

Ruby uses several programming paradigms, including:

• Functional programming
• Object-oriented programming
• Imperative programming

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

• Computer programming
• Functional programming
• General-purpose programming language
• Imperative programming
• Object-oriented programming
• Programming language

External links

• Ruby (programming language) @ Wikipedia
• Official website
• RubyInstaller - application for installing Ruby on Microsoft Windows