Like many of the breakaway derivatives, ROR has a little of something else. Based upon Smalltalk without the unfamiliar syntax to a more user friendly code and incorporate the flexibility and convenience of Python and Perl to get to, what else RUBY. Deemed a transparent language meaning you don’t need tons of code just to get the hello world program to operate (try doing that in COBOL and you’ll get what I mean). Making programs more user-friendly as it did away with the more alien-like terminologies used in the making of your code and maintaining it.