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It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, extensible, and portable
The Integer class and its subclasses Fixnum and Bignum now have a reverse method. This is an important part of Ruby, as less object oriented languages will often make you use more standard procedural style within a class, e.g. a custom method I want to operate on strings would typically be a static method that takes a string as an explicit method in Java or C#, while in Ruby you would add it to the string class and continue calling it OOP style. Ruby even lets you add a method to a single specific instance of a class.
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