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Line 23: Ruby is purely object-oriented: every bit of data is an object, including types that are designated "primitive" in impure languages. Every function is a method. This is similar to Smalltalk but unlike [[Java programming language\|Java]] and Python. Every named value (variable name) in a Ruby program designates a reference to an object, not the object itself. The language was created by [[Yukihiro Matsumoto]] (a.k.a. "Matz") on February 24, [[1993]]. The current stable version is 1.6.8.0. Note that the name is not an [[acronym]]--it is actually a [[pun]] on [[Perl]]. According to the author, he designed Ruby to follow the ''[[principle of least surprise]]'' (POLS), meaning that the

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