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What is Ruby?

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Why is Ruby so Popular?
== Why is Ruby so Popular? ==
Firstly, Ruby is a very intuitive and clean programming language. This makes learning Ruby a less challenging task than learning some other languages. Ruby is also a great general purpose language. It can be used to write scripts in the same way you might you use Perl, and it can be used to create full scale, standalone GUI based applications. Ruby's usefulness doesn't end there however. Ruby is also great for serving web pages, generating dynamic web page content and excels at database access tasks.
Not only is Ruby intuitive and flexible it is also extensible, enabling new functionality to be added through the integration third-party, or even home grown libraries.
And, of course , being an interpreted language means that Ruby is portable. Once an application has bene been developed in Ruby it will run equally well on Ruby supported platforms such as Linux, UNIX, Windows and MacOS X.