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What is Ruby?

Ruby is a programming langauge.  It was developed in 1995 in Japan.  It is an Object-Oriented (OO) programming language and is gaining in popularity.

Ruby is not a compiled language, but an interpreted, or "scripting" language.  It is similar in appearance to languages like JavaScript but is much more powerful. 

Ruby script file names typically end in .rb.  In this format, they are human readable with a text editor. 

There are many sources on the web to learn more about Ruby.  The official Ruby home page is www.ruby-lang.org. 

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