My friend Alden has tipped me off to a language that is becoming popular and may be the next biggest thing in web development. So I added a link to my Web Development Links page. The language is called Ruby .
"In Ruby, everything is an object. Every bit of information and code can be given their own properties and actions. Object-oriented programming calls properties by the name instance variables and actions are known as methods. Ruby’s pure object-oriented approach is most commonly demonstrated by a bit of code which applies an action to a number. "~ruby-lang.org
Me! I like it because it has the same name as my grandma. The world however is definately liking Ruby according to the The TIOBE Programming Community index.
"We are glad to announce that Ruby has become "Programming Language of the Year 2006". Ruby has the highest popularity increase in a year of all programming languages (+2.15%). Runner up this year is JavaScript with +1.31%. Both languages are boosted by their corresponding frameworks, Ruby On Rails and Ajax. This might be a new trend. In the recent past it was necessary to have a large company behind the language to get it in the spotlight (Sun with Java, Microsoft with C#), but nowadays a killer app appears to be sufficient. Viral marketing via the Internet works! The winners of the last 2 years, PHP and Java, are the losers of this year. Other trends that are observed are the growth of dynamically typed languages and the fact that the difference in popularity between languages is getting less." ~tiobe.com
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Me! I like it because it has the same name as my grandma. The world however is definately liking Ruby according to the The TIOBE Programming Community index.