pkgsrc/lang/ruby200-base/DESCR
taca ea98d4c53f Add ruby200-base-2.0.0p247.
This is latest stable release of Ruby and it basically compatible with
Ruby 1.9.3.  Please refer full changes to NEWS/ChangeLog files or official
Web site.  Here is language changes:

* Added keyword arguments.

* Added %i and %I for symbol list creation (similar to %w and %W).

* Default source encoding is changed to UTF-8. (was US-ASCII)

* No warning for unused variables starting with '_'
2013-07-21 02:32:58 +00:00

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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, 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.)
This package is Ruby 2.0.0 release minimum base package.