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-From the distribution README:
-
-* What's Ruby
-
Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and
easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to
process text files and to do system management tasks (as in
Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.
-* Features of Ruby
+Features of Ruby are shown below.
+ Simple Syntax
+ *Normal* Object-Oriented features(ex. class, method calls)
@@ -17,4 +13,8 @@ Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.
+ Iterators and Closures
+ Garbage Collection
+ Dynamic Loading of Object files(on some architecture)
- + Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines)
+ + Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS,
+ Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.)
+
+Author: Matsumoto "matz" Yukihiro <matz@netlab.co.jp>
+WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/