Adt. Zend. * Encountering Ruby. Introduction In my 30 years in this business I've seen many programming languages come and go, but I've done some recent coding in Ruby and I think it may have — what term shall I use?
— staying power. Ruby was first released in 1994, so it is not exactly new, but because it was first released in Japan without any English documentation, it is only now being explored by English speakers. Ruby was written by Yukihiro Matsumoto, nicknamed "Matz" online, for the purpose of avoiding some of the more glaring defects in other languages. Dynamic Drive- Online Tools.