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Characteristics of Ruby
We will try to list the characteristics of ruby. The catch
phrase of ruby is `an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy
object-oriented programming'.
Let's examine certain feautures of ruby which support this
slogan.
- quick and easy
- interpreted
- variables aren't typed
- variable declaration unnecessary
- simple syntax
- memory managing unnecessary
- for OOP
- everything is an object
- classes, inheritance, methods, etc...
- singleton method
- Mixin by module
- iterator and closure
- scripting language
- interpreter
- powerful string operations and regular expressions
- enable to access to OS directly
- misc...
- multiple precision integers
- exception processing model
- dynamic loading
Do you understand what sort of language ruby is? Don't worry about
unknown concepts above since they will be explained in this guide.
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