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ruby-3.3.11

object oriented script language with threads

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Description

Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible. Features of Ruby are shown below. - Simple Syntax - *Normal* Object-Oriented features(ex. class, method calls) - *Advanced* Object-Oriented features(ex. Mix-in, Singleton-method) - Operator Overloading - Exception Handling - Iterators and Closures - Garbage Collection - Dynamic Loading of Object files(on some architecture) - Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS, Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.)

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Ports path
lang/ruby/3.3
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Jeremy Evans <jeremy@openbsd.org>
Categories
lang, lang/rust
Available flavors
no_ri_docs, bootstrap

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