Syngress, 2002., 720 p., ISBN10: 1928994644
An expert guide to Ruby, a popular new Object-Oriented Programming Language Looking for a simple, straight forward, extensible, portable, programming language? You might want to consider one of the newer languages gaining popularity - Ruby. Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming such as processing text files or performing system management. Having been compared with other programming languages such as Perl, Python, PCL, Java, Eiffel, and C++; Ruby is quickly becoming a favorite among developers because of its straight forward syntax and transparent semantics.