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=== Early concept ===
Matsumoto has said that Ruby was conceived in 1993. In a 1999 post to the ''ruby-talk'' mailing list, he describes some of his early ideas about the language:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ruby-doc-bundle/FAQ/FAQ.html|title=The Ruby Language FAQ|author=Shugo Maeda|date=17 December 2002|access-date=2 March 2014}}</ref>
{{Blockquote|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 (programming language)|Python]] then. But I didn't like it, because I didn't think it was a true object-oriented language{{snd}} 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.}}
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