The Ruby Programming Language By David Flanagan & Yukihiro Matsumoto First Edition January 2008 Pages: 444 ISBN 10: 0-596-51617-7 | ISBN 13:9780596516178 At one of the Little Language conferences ...

Microsoft has hired John Lam, the software developer behind RubyCLR, open-source software for writing .Net applications with the Ruby programming language.

Ruby–a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language–was created by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto in the mid-1990s.

The Ruby site describes the language thusly: “Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do ...