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Ruby - Object-oriented programming language

Ruby is a language for quick and easy programming. Similar in scope to Perl and python, it has high-level data types, automatic memory management, dynamic typing, a module system, exceptions, and a rich standard library. What sets ruby apart is a clean and consistent language design where everything is an object. Other distinguishing features are CLU-style iterators for loop abstraction, singleton classes/methods and lexical closures.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.ruby-lang.org/
Source tarballftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.0.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20020102.html
Version 1.8.0 (stable) released on 2003-08-25
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User reference manual (v. 1.4.6; manual for v. 1.6.0, the current version, not yet available) available in HTML format from http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/man-1.4/index.html; User reference manual available in PDF format from http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/pdf-doc/ruby-man.pdf; User FAQ available in HTML format from http://www.rubygarden.org/iowa/faqtotum
Support contacts

Help List<ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20020104.html
Help Newscomp.lang.ruby
Bug List<ruby-bugs@ruby-lang.org>
Bug Databasehttp://www.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/ruby-bugs

Project contacts

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Related information

Source repositorypserver:anonymous@cvs.ruby-lang.org:/src login password: anonymous http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20020106.html
Interfacescommand line
Source languagesRuby
Supported languagesRuby
Build prerequisiteslibruby
Related programsRuby update, Ruby DICT, rb.log, Ruby/RSS, JRuby

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-02-16
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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