From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 9 13:15:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeze.org (www.stelesys.com [208.177.187.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A9637B401 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 13:15:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@freeze.org) Received: (from jim@localhost) by freeze.org (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f59KFR604549; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 16:15:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim) X-Authentication-Warning: www.stelesys.com: Processed from queue /var/spool/alt_queue X-Authentication-Warning: www.stelesys.com: Processed by jim with -C /web/siteinfo/freeze/mail/sendmail.cf Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 16:15:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Freeze X-X-Sender: To: David Leimbach Cc: Subject: Re: RUBY??? In-Reply-To: <20010609143721.A575@mutt.home.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, David Leimbach wrote: > 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??? Ruby is a fully object oriented scripting language. It has quite a following but is rather new to the US. It got it's start in Japan about 5 years ago. For myself, I consider it a Perl replacement and I use it both professionally and personally. The official Ruby site is: http://www.ruby-lang.org There is also a book that is available and online at: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/index.html Cheers ========================================================= Jim Freeze jim@freeze.org --------------------------------------------------------- No comment at this time. http://www.freeze.org ========================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message