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Ruby Alive

Ruby
KindProgramming language
Appeared1995
StatusAlive
CreatorYukihiro 'Matz' Matsumoto
FamilyRuby
Sourcewww.ruby-lang.org ↗

Matz's happiness-first language — Smalltalk's purity with Perl's pragmatism; Rails made it the startup generation's dialect.

Influenced by LISP Smalltalk Eiffel Perl
Created by Yukihiro Matsumoto
Influenced Elixir Crystal

Yukihiro Matsumoto's Ruby (1995) — 'Matz' — designed for programmer happiness: Smalltalk objects, Perl practicality, and a community ethic (MINASWAN).\n\nRails (2004) made it the startup language; GitHub, Shopify, and Basecamp run on it.

Sources

  1. ruby-lang.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language)