Ruby

Ruby is a general purpose programming language developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto. It is still in use today. The latest stable release of the reference implementation is 1.8.7. Matsumoto says he "wanted a scripting language that was more powerful than Perl, and more object-oriented than Python. That's why I decided to design my own language". It is designed for programmer productivity and fun, and follows the principles of good user interface design. Matsumoto chose the name Ruby because it was the birthstone of one of his colleagues. This is the code to print the phrase "Hello World!": code puts "Hello World!" code The official Ruby logo.