Ruby-mp3info is a Ruby library designed for accessing internal information and tags of mp3 files. It is a pure Ruby library and suitable for quick and easy mp3 file access.
Ruby's official implementation is written in C and is a single-pass interpreted language since there is no current specification of the Ruby language. As of 2008, there are alternative implementations of Ruby language such as Rubinius, JRuby, YARV, and IronRuby, each of which takes a different approach. JRuby provides just-in-time compilation functionality.
Ruby was created by Yukihiro Matsumoto, who started working on Ruby on February 24, 1993, and released it to the public in 1995. The language was named as a gemstone because of a joke within Matsumoto's circle of friends alluding to the name of the Perl programming language.
The latest stable version of the reference implementation of Ruby is 1.8.6 as of December 2007. In addition to the reference, several virtual machines are being developed for Ruby. These include JRuby, a port of Ruby to the Java platform, IronRuby, an implementation for the .NET Framework produced by Microsoft, and Rubinius, an interpreter modeled after self-hosting Smalltalk virtual machines.
Overall, Ruby-mp3info is a valuable addition for developers who require access to mp3 file tags and internal information. Ruby's pure library provides an efficient solution for this task, and its multiple programming paradigms make it a versatile language for various software development needs. With its dynamic type system and automatic memory management, Ruby is a language worth considering for any software development project.
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