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==History==
[[Image:Yukihiro Matsumoto.JPG|thumb|right|100px|Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby.]]
Ruby was conceived on [[February 24]] [[1993]] by [[Yukihiro Matsumoto]] blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.
=== Etymology of the name "Ruby" ===
As of June 2008, the latest stable version of the reference implementation is 1.8.7. Apart from the reference, several other [[virtual machine]]s are being developed for Ruby. These include [[JRuby]], a port of Ruby to the [[Java (programming language)|Java]] platform, [[IronRuby]], an implementation for the [[.NET Framework]] produced by [[Microsoft]], and [[Rubinius]], an [[Interpreter (computing)|interpreter]] modeled after [[self-hosting]] [[Smalltalk]] virtual machines.▼
The name "Ruby" was conceived during an online chat session between Matsumoto and [[Keiju Ishitsuka]] before any code had been written for the language.<ref>http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2006/10/20/rubyconf-history-of-ruby History of Ruby</ref> A name of a precious gemstone was chosen to acknowledge the new language's relationship with the [[Perl]] programming language, with two names being initially proposed: Coral and Ruby.<ref>http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/88819</ref>
===Ruby-GNOME2===▼
<pre>
matz> Let us decide the codename now
matz> tentative one.
keiju> Ok.
matz> What is your best up to now?
keiju> I'm content with coral.
matz> I thought ruby is cool as a codename, isn't it
keiju> Well. ruby is also good.
matz> But, coral is also good
matz> arrr
</pre>
"Ruby" was settled on as the name by Matsumoto in a later email to Ishitsuka.<ref>http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/88819</ref> It was later recognized that [[pearl]] is the [[birthstone]] for the month of [[June]], while [[ruby]] is the birthstone for [[July]], implying an incremental relationship to Perl.<ref>[http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2001/11/29/ruby.html An Interview with the Creator of Ruby]</ref>
=== First publication ===
Ruby 0.95 was available to the public, that is Japanese netnews users. At this time the [http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-list/index.shtml ruby-list ML] was launched with the first email: ruby-0.95 test failed.<ref>http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-list/1</ref>
▲As of June 2008, the latest stable version of the reference implementation is 1.8.7. Apart from the reference, several other [[virtual machine]]s are being developed for Ruby. These include [[JRuby]], a port of Ruby to the [[Java (programming language)|Java]] platform, [[IronRuby]], an implementation for the [[.NET Framework]] produced by [[Microsoft]], and [[Rubinius]], an [[Interpreter (computing)|interpreter]] modeled after [[self-hosting]] [[Smalltalk]] virtual machines.
==Philosophy==
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