For example, LISP, a language of great beauty and simplicity in conception, ... I almost skipped sleep for a week because I was so excited by the implications of Ruby, a programming language that ...

A Bit About Ruby Style. We could keep going, showing syntax of Ruby semantics of Ruby – when to do a for loop, for example, and how to add two numbers together.

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. It was also influenced by Eiffel and Lisp.