What sort of programming language is Ruby? What does it compare to?

What sort of programming language is Ruby? Is it something that compares to PHP/Perl? Or is it something like Java? Is it a scripting languge or something that compiles into an executable?

What sort of programming language is Ruby? What does it compare to?
Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, extensible, and portable.


* Ruby has simple syntax, partially inspired by Eiffel and Ada.


* Ruby has exception handling features, like Java or Python, to make it easy to handle errors.


* Ruby is a complete, full, pure object oriented language: OOL. This means all data in Ruby is an object, in the sense of Smalltalk: no exceptions.


http://www2.ruby-lang.org/en/20020101.ht...





By the way, here is a great site for getting the feel of new languages. It does one thing (the 99 bottles of beer song) in hundreds of programming languages. Here is the Ruby link.


http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/langua...
Reply:Compare? hmm.. ruby is open source, with focus on SIMPLICITY, and have a elegant syntax, its really different from others. except is ruby fully OOP. for details you can see here: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentatio...