CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2011/ch1 1a lj
CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2010/ch1 1a lj
Introduction
In this Wiki, several kinds of IDEs for Ruby language is shown and their features are compared carefully.
=What is Ruby=[[1]] Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language. Ruby supports multiple programming paradigms, including functional, object oriented, imperative and reflective. It also has a dynamic type system and automatic memory management;
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What is an IDE
An integrated development environment (IDE) (also known as integrated design environment, integrated debugging environment or interactive development environment) is a application software that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of:
- a [source code editor]
- a compiler and/or an interpreter
- build automation tools
- a debugger