Ruby
inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features
It was also influenced by Eiffel and Lisp
Ruby has "Ruby License" and "BSD License"
Ruby was first designed and developed in the mid-1990s by
Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan
Ruby is cross-platform programming language
History
Ruby was conceived on February 24, 1993 by Yukihiro
Matsumoto who wished to create a new language that
balanced functional programming with imperative
programming
Ruby was disignet to be more powerful than Perl and more
object-oriented than Python
The name "Ruby" was decided on during an online chat
session between Matsumoto and Keiju Ishitsuka on
February 24, 1993, before any code had been written for the
language.
History
Initially two names were proposed: "Coral" and "Ruby", with
the latter being chosen by Matsumoto in a later email to
Ishitsuka
The first public release of Ruby 0.95 was announced on
Japanese domestic newsgroups on December 21, 1995
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