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 ...

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.

It started off No. 2 in 2008, though, behind Ruby, the language used to write GitHub itself. "It should be noted that this graph represents each language's relative popularity on GitHub," staffer ...