Exact copy of entry posted June 12, 2001 8:02 am by Stephen Gilbert.
Copied to change name from "Ruby language" to "Ruby programming language" to match other language names.
- For the record, I had little to do with this article, other then the editing. The original editing history was pruned --Stephen Gilbert
So this guy created the language in one day? Cool. --AxelBoldt
Of course not :) --Taw
Some of the text of this article seems non-NPOV. For example "clean syntax" and "obvious syntax" seem rather subjective. It doesn't bother me too much, but someone who is familar with the language (and not biased :-) ) might want to NPOV the text. --Frecklefoot 19:08 16 May 2003 (UTC)
In fairness, and with considerable experience of using Ruby after unhappy experiences with many other programming languages, I can only concur with those representations. It is syntactically very clear and also extremely obvious to anyone with an understanding of OO concepts. Sjc 13:12, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I'm not sure that Ruby has ever been compiled yet. AFAIK JRuby is a port of the interpreter to java byte code, but does not compile the underlying ruby? --User:TomCounsell
- Correct. But even as an interpreted language it is blindingly fast. Sjc 13:12, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- So there's agreement that no Ruby compilers exist? I plan to remove the misleading claim: "It was originally designed as an interpreted language, though in its JRuby implementation it may be compiled." --Ds13 07:31, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, I've done some checking and it should probably be removed. There are a number of projects working on compiler type entities for ruby, but none that are beyond beta yet. -- TomCounsell