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11 quotes by Yukihiro Matsumoto

Matsumoto giving the keynote speech at EuRuKo 2011 Matsumoto accepting an award from the Free Software Foundation in 2012 Yukihiro Matsumoto (松本行弘 (まつもとゆきひろ), Matsumoto Yukihiro?, a.k.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). His demeanor has brought about a motto in the...
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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... →

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In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular... →

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I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to... →

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

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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... →

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Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so... →

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

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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero... →

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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... →

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Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete... →

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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... →

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