My Ruby article in IT magazine

My article named "Ruby: a gem of a language" has been published in the October 2008 issue of the IT magazine, "The Smart Techie".

It is an introductory article about Ruby, covering some aspects of its history, the philosophies behind it, and the important features that make it such a special language.

Here is a copy of it: Ruby: a gem of a language

Please note that the editor modified a few of my sentences:

Modified: "It (Ruby) is developed from various languages such as Smalltalk, Perl, Python, Lisp, and Ada."
Original: "It (Ruby) is inspired from various languages such as Smalltalk, Perl, Python, Lisp and Ada"

The latter means that the language creator borrowed ideas from all those languages to create his own, while the former seems to convey that the language is implemented using those other languages (which is not correct... Matz' Ruby Interpreter is actually written in C which is not at all like Ruby).

Modified: "Ruby is the most talked about programming language in the tech circles."
Original: "There is a lot of talk about Ruby in tech circles"

I won't speak superlatively about Ruby as there are other good languages out there which are very much talked about with equal gusto.

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