Ruby Programming Language
Ruby Programming Language What is it? Ruby is a general-purpose language that was created in the 1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan. It was designed with an emphasis on programming productivity and simplicity. It is increasingly becoming a popular language for programs that run on web servers. Ruby is dynamically typed and uses garbage collection and just-in-time compilation, and it supports multiple programming paradigms including procedural, object-oriented, and functional programming. History According to the creator ( Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto ), Ruby was influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, BASIC, Java, and Lisp. He said that Ruby was conceived in 1993. The name "Ruby" originated during an online chat session between Matsumoto and Keiju Ishitsuka on February 24, 1993, before any code had been written for the language. Initially, two names were proposed: "Coral" and "Ruby".