Ruby Comes to the .NET Platform

Find out why .NET programmers may want to learn and use Ruby, and discover the core syntax of the language.

by Brad Wilson

October 20, 2008

icrosoft's IronRuby project brings a powerful and fun dynamic language to the Windows platform. The Ruby programming language is a modern, object-oriented scripting language, with a syntax inspired by languages such as Perl and Smalltalk. It was conceived by Yukihiro Matsumoto (aka "Matz"). In his words, Matz wanted a language that was "more powerful than Perl and more object-oriented than Python" (read more from Matz). The language is designed to feel natural; something Matz calls the "principle of least surprise." Version 1.0 of the language was released in 1996.

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Ruby Comes to the .NET Platform

Find out why .NET programmers may want to learn and use Ruby, and discover the core syntax of the language.

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