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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 '_'
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Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and
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easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to
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process text files and to do system management tasks (as in
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Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.
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Features of Ruby are shown below.
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+ Simple Syntax
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+ *Normal* Object-Oriented features (ex. class, method calls)
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+ *Advanced* Object-Oriented features (ex. Mix-in, Singleton-method)
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+ Operator Overloading
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+ Exception Handling
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+ Iterators and Closures
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+ Garbage Collection
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+ Dynamic Loading of Object files (on some architecture)
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+ Highly Portable (works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS,
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Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.)
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This package is Ruby 2.0.0 release minimum base package.
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