The lang/ruby/1.9,-main port
ruby-1.9.3.448 – object oriented script language with threads
Description
Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and
easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to
process text files and to do system management tasks (as in
Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.
Features of Ruby are shown below.
- Simple Syntax
- *Normal* Object-Oriented features(ex. class, method calls)
- *Advanced* Object-Oriented features(ex. Mix-in, Singleton-method)
- Operator Overloading
- Exception Handling
- Iterators and Closures
- Garbage Collection
- Dynamic Loading of Object files(on some architecture)
- Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS,
Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.)
WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/
- Multi-packages
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ruby-dbm-1.9.3.448
ruby-gdbm-1.9.3.448
ruby-1.9.3.448
ruby-ri_docs-1.9.3.448
ruby-tk-1.9.3.448
- Broken
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on sparc64:
doesnt reliably build, and depending ports randomly fail to build
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lang
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