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No, but BASIC did.

And by the time of Amstrad PC1512, BASIC compilers became an option as well, although originally Darthmound BASIC was compiled, CP/M systems also had compilers available, it just did not fit into 8 bit home computers, which had to wait for the 16 bit wave of home computers.

There were other high level dynamic languages with compilers like Lisp subsets, xBase/Clipper.

So if we managed back then, there is no reason to not have a tiny Ruby version nowadays for similar environments.