At one of the Little Language conferences in Cambridge, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto gave a talk on his Ruby language to an audience made up largely of academics, language designers, and language ...

In the open source world, the popular programming language Ruby is experiencing a fierce controversy over critical ...

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. It was also influenced by Eiffel and Lisp. Ruby ...

When Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto created Ruby in the mid-1990s he did so with programmer productivity as a priority. The result was a powerful, flexible language with an elegant syntax that reads and ...

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Microsoft is “very interested” in the Ruby programming language and also plans to expand its Expression design tools line, a company official said this week. “We are very interested in Ruby and have ...

Ramblings of an African Geek writes about secondary school programming competition in Ghana: “For those of you unfamiliar with I2CAP, it is a secondary school level programming competition. We train ...