lang/ruby/4.0 4.0.7 OpenBSD

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 are 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, and on DOS, Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.)