• As a programming language, an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose language. Ruby is dynamically typed and uses garbage collection. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including procedural, object-oriented, and functional programming. Ruby was designed and developed in the 1990s by Yukihiro Matsumoto. According to the creator, Ruby was influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, Basic, and Lisp. ← Wikipedia ↑ ruby-lang.org
• As markup, special HTML elements for brief text that goes alongside a base text; such Ruby text is used for pronunciation and annotation in East Asian documents. ↑ w3.org/TR/ruby

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