Making Use of Ruby

Making Use of Ruby, 9780471219729 (047121972X), John Wiley & Sons, 2002

Ruby is an interpreted language, capable of saving programmers considerable time during program development since no compilation and linking are necessary. It is ideal for writing text-processing applications, server-side scripts, application prototypes, mathematics, and for many everyday programming tasks.

* Reviews Ruby's clever syntax and demonstrates why that makes it a perfect choice for beginning programmers, and also shows how its multipurpose capabilities make it a sound choice for experienced developers
* Explores Ruby's uses for prototyping, text processing, and other tasks

In this information age, portability is one of the important features that everybody looks forward to in a programming language. Language being portable means that it should be able to run on any operating system. Moreover, it should be able to provide a similar performance on all the operating systems. Users will find Ruby extremely useful in terms of portability. Ruby can be run on most versions of UNIX, DOS, Windows 95/ 98/NT, Mac, and OS/2.

Ruby is a portable, interpreted, object-oriented programming language. It combines remarkable power with very clear syntax. Moreover, its highlevel built-in data structures, combined with dynamic typing and dynamic binding, make it very attractive for scripting.

Do you want to know whether Ruby is popular? Based on recent reports, Ruby is more popular than Python, another scripting language, in Japan. Check this URL—www.ruby-lang.org/en/magazine.html—to find various articles in different information technology (IT) magazines.

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