Ruby (programming language)

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Ruby is a dynamic reflective object-oriented general-purpose programming language. It 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. It supports multiple programming paradigms including functional object-oriented and imperative. It also has a dynamic type system and automatic memory management.

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designer

Yukihiro Matsumoto

developer

Yukihiro Matsumoto

influenced

Groovy (programming language), Potion (programming language), Falcon (programming language), D (programming language), Fancy (programming language), Nu (programming language), Ioke (programming language), Reia (programming language), Mirah (programming language), Elixir (programming language)

influenced by

Ada (programming language), CLU (programming language), Dylan (programming language), Eiffel (programming language), Lisp (programming language), Perl, Python (programming language), Smalltalk, Lua (programming language), C++

latest release date

2014-02-24

latest release version

2.1.1

license

BSD licenses, Ruby License