Who is Ruby?

There seems to be several nice, free programming languages out there that I should try. In the right column I will maintain a list of them. First one out is Ruby.

'Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. 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.

Oh, I need to mention, it's totally free, which means not only free of charge, but also freedom to use, copy, modify, and distribute it.'