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Yukihiro Matsumoto

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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.


— Yukihiro Matsumoto


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I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.


— Yukihiro Matsumoto


#consistency #design #goal #i #i believe

Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.


— Yukihiro Matsumoto


#consists #counting #example #for example #government

People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.


— Yukihiro Matsumoto


#among #better #better way #choose #comfortable

The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.


— Yukihiro Matsumoto


#complexity #explode #features #into

You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.


— Yukihiro Matsumoto


#done #enjoy #enjoy life #fun #get






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Written works
Ruby in a NutYukihiro Matsumotoll ISBN 0-596-00214-9
The Ruby Programming Language ISBN 0-596-51617-7


Online presentations and interviews
Keynote from RubyConf 2012
Keynote from RubyConf 2010
The 0. He graduated with an information science degree from University of Tsukuba where he was a member of Ikuo Nakata's research lab on programming languages and compilers. Work


Ruby
Matz released the first version of the Ruby programming language on 21 December 1995 and he is still leading the development effort on the reference implementation often called MRI for Matz Ruby Implementation.

Yukihiro Matsumoto (松本行弘 (まつもとゆきひろ) Matsumoto Yukihiro? a. Matz born 14 April 1965) is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language and its reference implementation Matz's Ruby Interpreter (MRI).

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