From: "Imobach González Sosa" Date: 2011-01-13T13:50:56+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby is interpreted and scripting language? 2011/1/13 Sai Babu : > I am ruby fresher. > i have studied that > "Ruby is a pure object oriented interpreted and scripting language". > > I would like to know what is the difference between interpreted language > and scripting language??? > > Any Please Help Me??? I think they're different things. Ruby is an interpreted language in the sense that Ruby code is interpreted and executed 'on the fly' by the Ruby interpreter. You can read more about that subject in the wikipedia[1]. About the 'scripting language' label I guess that it has to do with the capabilities and simplicity of Ruby to be used to develop system scripts and that kind of stuff. But nowadays I'm not sure if it's applicable yet, because I think that Ruby work great for other scenarios outside scripting. But it's just my opinion and probably I'm terribly wrong :) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpreted_language -- Imobach González Sosa imobachgs at gmail dot com