pkgsrc/lang/ruby16-base/DESCR
taca 6125a20f3c Importing ruby16-base package.
This is minimum ruby 1.6.8 based on current ruby16 and ruby16 package
will be meta pacakge later.
2005-03-06 16:36:08 +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 ${RUBY_VER} based release.