ANN: Ruby the object-oriented scripting language

[Yukihiro Matsumoto]

Hi.

I'd like to introduce you Ruby the object-oriented scripting language
from Japan, which:

* is object-oriented from scratch.
* is totally free, open-source language.
* has exception handling.
* has iterators and closures.
* can load libraries dynamically.
* is highly portable. Runs on many UNIXen, Win32, Mac, BeOS, etc.
* has user-level builtin thread feature available on all platforms.
* is less cryptic than perl. YMMV. :-)
* runs faster than python.
* has genuine conservative GC.
* can mix C-defined method and Ruby-defined method in a class.
* is easier to write extension libraries.
* needs no ref-count maintenance in extension libraries.

Here's testimony from Germany:

From: Clemens Hintze <c.hi...@gmx.net>
> Like any programmer I know many programming languages. It has took me
> three weeks to decide to learn Perl, one week for the decision to learn
> Python and ONE day to decide to learn Ruby!!!

Please check out http://www.netlab.co.jp/ruby/ for detail, try it, and
join us for happy programming.
matz.

[Adam Turoff]

Yukihiro Matsumoto <ma...@netlab.co.jp> wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I'd like to introduce you Ruby the object-oriented scripting language
>from Japan, which:
>
> * is object-oriented from scratch.
> * is totally free, open-source language.
> * has exception handling.

[yadda yadda yadda]

Looks like Christmas came early this year. :-) :-)

I was going to create a language this Xmas and call it Dwarf, complete
with builtins like 'cat', 'gimboid', and 'vindaloo'. Oh well...

Z.

[Leon Brocard]

Adam Turoff wrote:

> Looks like Christmas came early this year. :-) :-)
>
> I was going to create a language this Xmas and call it Dwarf, complete
> with builtins like 'cat', 'gimboid', and 'vindaloo'. Oh well...

Hmmm.

I guess the equivalent of $self would be $smeg then.

$smeg->cat(gimboid('angle-head'));

;-), Leon
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