From 594a033ff0f6a22693b7b82b060e922c58dac8d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcus Stollsteimer Date: Sun, 5 May 2019 09:52:34 +0200 Subject: Improve description of Ruby in README Use improved description as suggested by Olivier Lacan (@olivierlacan), see https://github.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/pull/1888. --- README.md | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9b012ec271..dd6a9116de 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -5,9 +5,10 @@ # What's Ruby -Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented -programming. It has many features to process text files and to manage system -(as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible. +Ruby is an interpreted object-oriented programming language often +used for web development. It also offers many scripting features +to process plain text and serialized files, or manage system tasks. +It is simple, straightforward, and extensible. ## Features of Ruby -- cgit v1.2.3