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10-07-2005, 08:09 PM

Ryan

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Does anybody know anything about this new language (code), Ruby?

I really don't know a whole lot about it...have heard people say a few things here and there...some say they think Ruby will give PHP some stiff competition...any evidence to back this up?

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10-07-2005, 08:44 PM

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Don't know much about it but here are a couple of links I found in a quick search about it.

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
http://www.rubycentral.com/

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10-08-2005, 02:39 AM

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iv never heard of it [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

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10-08-2005, 03:36 AM

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Hmm , yeah its a new language.
I wonder how good it is.

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10-08-2005, 04:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Hunz @ Oct 7 2005, 08:36 PM) [post=5474

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Hmm , yeah its a new language.
I wonder how good it is.
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yea i wounder to [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif[/img]

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10-17-2005, 08:13 AM

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hi, i am reading about compuers and programing languages to learn more about computer and all stuff, but i havent heard about ruby language, wats is that? totally lost

10-17-2005, 03:48 PM

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE[/center]<div class='quotemain'>What's Ruby
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.

Oh, I need to mention, it's totally free, which means not only free of charge, but also freedom to use, copy, modify, and distribute it.

Features of Ruby

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's operators are syntax sugar for the methods. You can redefine them easily.
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. Example: In Ruby, the number 1 is an instance of class Fixnum.
Ruby's OO is carefully designed to be both complete and open for improvements. Example: Ruby has the ability to add methods to a class, or even to an instance during runtime. So, if needed, an instance of one class *can* behave differently from other instances of the same class.
Ruby features single inheritance only, *on purpose*. But Ruby knows the concept of modules (called Categories in Objective-C). Modules are collections of methods. Every class can import a module and so gets all its methods for free. Some of us think that this is a much clearer way than multiple inheritance, which is complex, and not used very often compared with single inheritance (don't count C++ here, as it has often no other choice due to strong type checking!).
Ruby features true closures. Not just unnamed function, but with present variable bindings.
Ruby features blocks in its syntax (code surrounded by '{' ... '}' or 'do' ... 'end'). These blocks can be passed to methods, or converted into closures.
Ruby features a true mark-and-sweep garbage collector. It works with all Ruby objects. You don't have to care about maintaining reference counts in extension libraries. This is better for your health. ;-)
Writing C extensions in Ruby is easier than in Perl or Python, due partly to the garbage collector, and partly to the fine extension API. SWIG interface is also available.
Integers in Ruby can (and should) be used without counting their internal representation. There *are* small integers (instances of class Fixnum) and large integers (Bignum), but you need not worry over which one is used currently. If a value is small enough, an integer is a Fixnum, otherwise it is a Bignum. Conversion occurs automatically.
Ruby needs no variable declarations. It uses simple naming conventions to denote the scope of variables. Examples: simple 'var' = local variable, '@var' = instance variable, '$var' = global variable. So it is also not necessary to use a tiresome 'self.' prepended to every instance member.
Ruby can load extension libraries dynamically if an OS allows.
Ruby features OS independent threading. Thus, for all platforms on which Ruby runs, you also have multithreading, regardless of if the OS supports it or not, even on MS-DOS! ;-)
Ruby is highly portable: it is developed mostly on Linux, but works on many types of UNIX, DOS, Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP, MacOS, BeOS, OS/2, etc.[/b][/quote]

Source: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20020101.html

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10-18-2005, 05:22 AM

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thanks for xplanation, i will print ur replay to read very slow and try to understand.

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