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Ruby is a programming language designed for productivity and fun.

Ruby was created in 1995 in Japan by Yukihiro Matsumoto (who is known as Matz). He felt that programming languages had been too focused on being for machines and needed to align more with human needs.

Let's say you wanted to print "ha" 3 times on the screen, so you'd get "hahaha." In many programming languages you might have to do something like this:

for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
  cout << "ha";
}

Not so fun looking, right?

Matz wanted to create a computer languager that people could feel comfortable reading and interacting with, without all of that intimidating-looking punctuation. Printing "hahaha" in Ruby could look something like this:

3.times do
  print "ha"
end

Ruby's popularity grew with the release of Ruby on Rails in 2005. Rails was a framework that made it easier for Ruby to be used to create web pages, and was many developers' first introduction to Ruby. Since then Ruby's popularity has exploded, and Ruby developers are now very much in demand.

Twitter and Hulu are two famous web applications created using the Ruby programming language.