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Ruby in a Nutshell, Paperback / softback Book

Ruby in a Nutshell Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Ruby is an absolutely pure object-oriented scripting language written in C and designed with Perl and Python capabilities in mind.

While its roots are in Japan, Ruby is slowly but surely gaining ground in the US.

The goal of Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of Ruby and author of this book, is to incorporate the strengths of languages like Perl, Python, Lisp and Smalltalk.

Ruby is a genuine attempt to combine the best of everything in the scripting world.

Since 1993, Ruby mailing lists have been established, Web pages have formed, and a community has grown around it.

The language itself is very good at text processing and is notable for its broad object orientation.

Ruby is portable and runs under GNU/Linux (and other Unices) as well as DOS, MS Windows and Mac.

Written by Yukihiro Matsumoto ("Matz"), creator of the language, this text is a practical reference guide covering everything from Ruby syntax to the specifications of its standard class libraries.

The book is based on Ruby 1.6, and is applicable to development versions 1.7 and the next planned stable version 1.8.

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