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From: David Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net>
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Subject: RUBY???
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What is ruby and why are there so many ports for it...

I assume its some kind of language but I have to say that in the Linux circles
I used to inhabit that I never saw much about ruby...

Is it a general purpose language like Python???

Dave

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