Ruby by Example

Summary of Ruby vs. Other Languages

To sum up, Ruby is interpreted, not compiled, making it fast to develop in and slow to run. It is object oriented and functional, not procedural. It has strong, dynamic typing, instead of either weak or static typing, and it only automatically casts type for Boolean tests. It has built-in regular expression support and a clean, readable syntax. It is a general-purpose programming language both in theory and in practice. It has a very large collection of built-in methods, and it allows you to add to, alter, and extend those methods easily. Like its ancestor Lisp, Ruby has a real, usable nil value, and it treats all values except for nil and false as true. Ruby is also very fun to program in, and it stays out ...