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• stewdio

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  Ruby is a fairly young programming language, first publicly released in 1995. It was created by Japanese programmer Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto. And if you're running OS X you already have Ruby installed :) For more historical info I found the Ruby Wiki page to be decent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub…)

  Ruby gained significant popularity with the rise of Ruby on Rails. (Rails is a web application framework written in Ruby.) In fact, web searches for things having to do with Ruby will usually land you on a page that's actually discussing Rails. Here's the homepage for RoR: http://rubyonrails.org

  But Ruby is good for more than just building websites. Right now I'm excited about using it to create animated data visualizations. Ruby-Processing takes the commands and libraries I was used to in Processing and allows me to use them in Ruby. That means I can hit the ground running. And I found programming in Ruby to be much more rewarding that coding in Java (Processing).

  

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