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You may be wondering why Ruby is so popular. It is a beautiful and artistic language, according to its fans. They also say it's practical and useful. Ruby has attracted devoted coders around the world since its 1995 release. Ruby was widely accepted in 2006. Active user groups were formed in major cities around the globe and Ruby-related conferences were full to capacity. Ruby-Talk, the main mailing list for discussion about the Ruby language, saw an average of 200 messages per daily in 2006. As the community has grown, the number of messages per day on Ruby-Talk has fallen. Ruby ranks among the top 10 in most indices that measure popularity and growth of programming languages around the world (such as TIOBE index). The popularity of Ruby on Rails, especially the Ruby on Rails web framework, is responsible for a large part of this growth.
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Lua
Lua is an efficient, lightweight, embeddable, scripting language that is powerful and easy to use. It supports procedural, object-oriented, functional, data-driven programming and data description. Lua combines simple procedural syntax and powerful data description constructs that are based on extensible semantics and associative arrays. Lua is dynamically-typed and interprets bytecode using a register-based virtual computer. It also has automatic memory management and incremental garbage collection making it ideal for configuration and scripting as well as rapid prototyping and prototyping. Lua is well-respected for its performance. Lua is aspired to be "as fast" as other scripting languages. Multiple benchmarks have shown Lua to be the fastest language in the world of interpreted scripting. Lua is fast in benchmark programs but also in real-life. Lua has been used to write large portions of large applications.
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BASIC
BASIC (Beginners' All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a group of high-level, general-purpose programming languages that are designed to be easy to use. BASIC was initially designed to support simple mathematical operations. Matrix arithmetic was supported from its first implementation as a batch-language, and character strings were added in 1965. BASIC was born out of a larger movement towards time-sharing. Some dialects of BASIC support matrices and matrix-based operations that can be used to solve a set of simultaneous linear algebraic problems. These dialects directly supported matrix operations like assignment, addition, multiplicand (of compatible matrix types) and evaluation of a determinate. In the 1990s, BASIC's popularity declined as more powerful computers were introduced and advanced programming languages (such as Pascal or C) were made available.
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Crystal
Crystal's syntax is heavily inspired from Ruby's. It feels natural to read, easy to write, with the added benefit that it requires less learning curve for Ruby devs. Crystal is statically type-checked so errors in type will be caught before they reach runtime. Crystal also has type inference built-in, which means that most type annotations are unnecessary. Crystal makes all types non-nilable. The available variables are represented by a union of the type and null. The compiler will check for null references during compile time. Crystal's solution to metaprogramming is a powerful macro-system that covers everything from types inspection and basic templating to types inspection and running arbitrary programs.
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Sinatra
Sinatra has a number built-in settings which control the activation of certain features. The settings object is a request context object that contains application-level variables. These variables can be modified by using the set, disable, or enable methods. Applications can set their own custom settings, as well as default built-in framework settings. In its simplest form the set method creates an application attribute by taking a setting value and name. Extensions provide helper methods or class methods to Sinatra applications. These methods are usually listed and described in the extension home pages. Installing a gem, library or a file is all that's needed to use an extension.
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1995
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