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An Interpreted Object-Oriented Scripting Language

Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features for processing text files and performing system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible. * Ruby features: - Simple Syntax - *Normal* Object-Oriented features (class, method calls, for example) - *Advanced* Object-Oriented features(Mix-in, Singleton-method, for example) - Operator Overloading - Exception Handling - Iterators and Closures - Garbage Collection - Dynamic Loading of Object Files (on some architectures) - Highly Portable (works on many UNIX machines; DOS, Windows, Mac, BeOS, and more)