Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

As we head toward Christmas what could be more festive than learning a new programming language? As an early present (ho-ho-ho), we bring you a fascinating and highly useful language called Ruby. As ...

At one of the Little Language conferences in Cambridge, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto gave a talk on his Ruby language to an audience made up largely of academics, language designers, and language ...

Ruby is a programming language created by Yukihiro 'Matz' Matsumoto, released in 1995. Its birth had its origins in certain values and principles that were held dear by its creator. The most important ...

The language jumps seven spots from a year ago in Tiobe's index, while C's popularity takes a big hit Once faltering, Ruby is now making a comeback in language popularity. In this month’s Tiobe index, ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

The open source Ruby language, founded by developer Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto and released in 1995, has become a staple among programming languages. It has been used by companies like Twitter and ...

Microsoft is “very interested” in the Ruby programming language and also plans to expand its Expression design tools line, a company official said this week. “We are very interested in Ruby and have ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

</pre><BR>One thing my current skillset is lacking is a scripting language, with my only experience being with javascript, hence my idea of Ruby (or Perl, or even PowerShell). As of this post I know ...