Ruby, a dynamic, reflective, interpreted high-level programming language, appeared on February 23, 1993. The language has an operating system-independent implementation of multithreading, strong dynamic typing, a garbage collector, and many other features. Its syntax is similar to Perl and Eiffel, and its object-oriented approach is akin to Smalltalk.
Some characteristics of the language are also derived from Python, Lisp, Dylan, and Clue. The cross-platform implementation of the language interpreter is completely free.
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