What is the Ruby Legacy?

20 years ago there was a little explosion of programming languages. Computer hardware had advanced to the point where it was finally possible to write “serious” programs in what were called, at the time, “scripting languages”. Languages like TCL, Perl, Python, and, of course, Ruby.These languages were different in that they had no compilation step before running. They were dynamically typed, and dynamic in other ways as well. They were higher-level than the general-purpose programming languages of the time. You didn't have to manage memory in them. You didn't have to keep track of loop indexes while iterating through lists or arrays.