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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, extensible, and portable.
The Ruby logo is copyright © 2006, Yukihiro Matsumoto. It is released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
In a Nutshell, Ruby...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 478 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in January, 1998
ending with its most recent commit about 8 hours ago
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Ruby License
Permitted
Commercial Use
Modify
Distribute
Sub-License
Forbidden
Hold Liable
Required
Disclose Source
Include Copyright
These details are provided for information only. No information here is legal advice and should not be used as such.
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