Ruby: Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016

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I was talking with my colleague about the possibility of an object-oriented scripting language. I knew Perl (Perl4, not Perl5), but I didn't like it really, because it had the smell of a toy language (it still has). The object-oriented language seemed very promising. I knew Python then. But I didn't like it, because I didn't think it was a true object-oriented language– OO features appeared to be add-on to the language. As a language maniac and OO fan for 15 years, I really wanted a genuine object-oriented, easy-to-use scripting language. I looked for but couldn't find one. So I decided to make it.

Hell, ain’t nothing strange when Colored go crazy. Strange is when we don’t,” remarks a character in Cynthia Bond’s new novel, Ruby. And yet the people of Liberty Township in east Texas attribute the “howling, half-naked” madness of the title character to her own sins and travels, both a comeuppance for her preternatural beauty and an active choice. The locals never for a second stop to consider that Ruby Bell, the haunted, fatherless child of a light-skinned, red-haired woman, might have been shaped by the grinding weight of history.Ruby Landry is een jong meisje dat opgroeit bij haar grootmoeder in de Bayou. Ze is goed bevriend met Paul Tate, een aardige jongeman uit een rijker milieu. Maar als de vriendschap meer dreigt te worden, vertelt haar grootmoeder haar dat Paul haar halfbroer is, de zoon van haar moeder en Pauls vader.. Dit is een schok voor Ruby, die het op vraag van grootmama eerst niet aan Paul vertelt, maar later door omstandigheden het geheim toch onthult. Ruby has been described as a multi-paradigm programming language: it allows procedural programming (defining functions/variables outside classes makes them part of the root, 'self' Object), with object orientation (everything is an object) or functional programming (it has anonymous functions, closures, and continuations; statements all have values, and functions return the last evaluation). It has support for introspection, reflection and metaprogramming, as well as support for interpreter-based threads. Ruby features dynamic typing, and supports parametric polymorphism.

Effective with Ruby 1.9.3, released October 31, 2011, [27] Ruby switched from being dual-licensed under the Ruby License and the GPL to being dual-licensed under the Ruby License and the two-clause BSD license. [28] Adoption of 1.9 was slowed by changes from 1.8 that required many popular third party gems to be rewritten. Ruby 1.9 introduces many significant changes over the 1.8 series. Examples include: [29] A nicely written (and nicely printed) guide to Ruby that covers everything you would expect from a Ruby guide in untiring detail." Celia is up for "Church Mother" and once Ephram takes up with the devil woman she sees it as her righteous duty to help him see the error of his ways. Along with the townspeople. The book uses a visually rich format to engage your mind, rather than a text-heavy approach to put you to sleep. You will get plenty of practical examples with lots of code snippets to get mastery over Ruby.Many will compare Ruby to the work of Toni Morrison or Zora Neale Hurston, as Oprah Winfrey has. ( She’s chosen it as the fourth selection in her Book Club 2.0.) Ruby’s scenes of satanism and sexual abuse also evoke HBO’s True Detective, which is set in nearby Louisiana and has quite a few details in common with a true story. A few plot points might be similar, but Bond recounts the events from the perspective of a survivor who relives them every day, not an outside investigator cushioned by time and distance. The effect is profoundly different. While some of the themes and events are a bit familiar, it was a very nice read and once I got into it, I couldn't put it down. Don't skip ahead or read spoilers or anything of the sort (as highly tempting as it may be, believe me...) but just keep reading on as it gets better in my opinion. Starting with Ruby 1.9, and continuing with Ruby 2.x and above, the official Ruby interpreter has been YARV ("Yet Another Ruby VM"), and this implementation has superseded the slower virtual machine used in previous releases of MRI. A few notable changes in Ruby 2.6.0 include an experimental just-in-time compiler (JIT), and RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree (experimental). Ruby 1.8 has been the subject of several industry standards. The language specifications for Ruby were developed by the Open Standards Promotion Center of the Information-Technology Promotion Agency (a Japanese government agency) for submission to the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (JISC) and then to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It was accepted as a Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS X 3017) in 2011 [23] and an international standard (ISO/IEC 30170) in 2012. [24] [25]

It's not going to be a book that everyone loves. It features inhuman cruelty, rape, incest, false religion and just pure evil. Through it all though the author's voice rings true. Collingbourne knows his subject and if you are a software developer wanting to learn more about Ruby there is plenty of valuable material here." v1_9_3_0/NEWS". Ruby Subversion source repository. ruby-lang.org. September 17, 2011 . Retrieved February 20, 2013. an additional Hash literal syntax using colons for symbol keys: { symbol_key : "value" } == { :symbol_key => "value" } Clojure, CoffeeScript, Crystal, D, Elixir, Groovy, Julia, [5] Mirah, Nu, [6] Ring, [7] Rust, [8] Swift [9]

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Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. They think, "By doing this, the machine will run fast. By doing this, the machine will run more effectively. By doing this, the machine will something something something." They are focusing on machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines. We are the masters. They are the slaves. Ruby 3.0 introduces RBS language to describe the types of Ruby programs for static analysis. [41] It is separated from general Ruby programs. ruby-list:124] TUTORIAL— ruby's features". Archived from the original on 24 May 2003 . Retrieved 2 May 2015. Yukihiro Matsumoto (August 2002). "lang-ruby-general: Re: question about Ruby initial development" . Retrieved 3 March 2014. and easy to follow guide to learning Ruby. Learn to Program A wonderful little tutorial by Chris Pine for programming newbies. If