From the FAQ[http://www.rubycentral.com/faq/rubyfaq.html]:

``Ruby is a simple and powerful object-oriented programming language, created by Yukihiro Matsumoto (who goes by the handle "matz" in this document and on the mailing lists). 

``Like [Perl], Ruby is good at text processing. Like [Smalltalk], everything in Ruby is an object, and Ruby has blocks, [iterators], meta-classes and other good stuff.

``You can use Ruby to write servers, experiment with prototypes, and for everyday programming tasks. As a fully-integrated object-oriented language, Ruby scales well.''

The home page for Ruby is http://www.ruby-lang.org.  You may also find http://www.rubycentral.com and http://www.ale.cx/mine/ good sources of Ruby information.

There is a Ruby/Tk[http://www.ale.cx/mine/raa/raa-history-Application_GUI.html] if you want to bring your [Tk] skills into a new world.
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