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Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and
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easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to
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process text files and to do system management tasks (as in
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Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.
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Features of Ruby are shown below.
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+ Simple Syntax
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+ *Normal* Object-Oriented features(ex. class, method calls)
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+ *Advanced* Object-Oriented features(ex. Mix-in, Singleton-method)
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+ Operator Overloading
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+ Exception Handling
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+ Iterators and Closures
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+ Garbage Collection
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+ Dynamic Loading of Object files(on some architecture)
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+ Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS,
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Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.)
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The Ruby home page is at:
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WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/
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