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authorThomas Gellekum <tg@FreeBSD.org>1997-09-11 09:45:58 +0000
committerThomas Gellekum <tg@FreeBSD.org>1997-09-11 09:45:58 +0000
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Import ruby port. ruby is an object-oriented interpreted
scripting language. PR: 4504 Submitted by: Eiji-usagi-MATSUmoto <usagi@ruby.club.or.jp>
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+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, and extensible.
+
+Features of ruby is shown below.
+
+ + Simple Syntax
+ + *Normal* Object-Oriented features(ex. class, method calls)
+ + *Advanced* Object-Oriented features(ex. Mix-in, Singleton-method)
+ + Operator Overloading
+ + Exception Handling
+ + Iterators and Closures
+ + Garbage Collection
+ + Dynamic Loading of Object files(on some architecture)
+ + Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines)
+
+The ruby home page is at http://www.netlab.co.jp/ruby/.