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Scripting language created by Yukihiro Matsumoto (“Matz”) from Japan in 1993.
Borrows concepts from Perl, Smalltalk, Python, CLU and Lisp.
Designed from the ground up to be object-oriented and is very portable.
Features include exception handling, closures, iterators, garbage collection, threads and more.
Comprehensive support library.
Current version 1.8.0 (August 4, 2003).