Ruby (programming language) facts for kids
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| Paradigm | multi-paradigm: object-oriented, imperative, functional, reflective |
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| Designed by | Yukihiro Matsumoto |
| Developer | Yukihiro Matsumoto, et al. |
| First appeared | 1995 |
| Stable release |
2.3.1 / April 26, 2016
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| Typing discipline | duck, dynamic |
| Scope | lexical, sometimes dynamic |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| License | Ruby License or BSD License |
| Filename extensions | .rb, .rbw |
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| Ruby MRI, YARV, Rubinius, MagLev, JRuby, MacRuby, RubyMotion, HotRuby, IronRuby, mruby | |
| Influenced by | |
| Ada, C++, CLU, Dylan, Eiffel, Lisp, Perl, Python, Smalltalk | |
| Influenced | |
| D, Elixir, Falcon, Fancy, Groovy, Ioke, Mirah, Nu, Reia | |
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Ruby is a language in text used to tell machines what to do - a programming language. Ruby was created in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan.
It looks like the English language, like the language you are reading now. It has more qualities:
- Terse. Short, but still easy to understand.
- Dynamic. Easy to change, any time and any where.
- Duck typing. If you think you understand it, you probably understand it.
Many programmers like it because the creator tried to make it easy and nice to use.
Example
An example Hello World program in Ruby:
puts "Hello World!"Images for kids
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Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby
See also
In Spanish: Ruby para niños
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