Ruby is an object-oriented scripting language well suited for purposes as diverse as system-management scripts, rich Internet applications, or desktop applications.

Ruby 是一种面向对象的脚本语言，适用于各种系统管理脚本、富 Internet 应用程序或者桌面应用程序。

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Like fixing any jumble, software gets organized by putting like things in boxes--a process called "abstraction"--and it flourished in the coming years through techniques like object-oriented programming, which shapes the Internet's Java language.

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