∞ /notes/ruby-a-modern-high-level-language | 2005-09-16 | ruby

Ruby, a modern high-level language

Cross-posted to: https://fsteeg.wordpress.com/2005/09/16/uby-a-modern-high-level-language/

It really seems like Ruby brings together much great stuff from lots of different places. Clean OO, modern API and concepts (like Exceptions, Unit-Testing), great integration of Regular Expressions or some good stuff from Lisp and friends like everything being a function (math., i.e. returning a value), support for changes at runtime or an interpreter for interactive evaluation. And like Regular Expressions can be, Ruby's usage of iterators instead of loops seems to be somewhat higher-level, more problem-oriented.