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Yukihiro Matsumoto

Yukihiro Matsumoto (まつもとゆきひろ, Matsumoto Yukihiro, born 14 April 1965), also known as Matz, is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language and its original reference implementation, Matz's Ruby Interpreter (MRI). His demeanor has brought about a motto in the Ruby community: "Matz is nice and so we are nice," commonly abbreviated as MINASWAN.

Not to be confused with Alexis Nolent.

Yukihiro Matsumoto
まつもと ゆきひろ

(1965-04-14) 14 April 1965

Matz

Computer scientist, programmer, author

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As of 2011, Matsumoto is the Chief Architect of Ruby at Heroku, an online cloud platform-as-a-service in San Francisco. He is a fellow of the Rakuten Institute of Technology, a research and development organization within Rakuten Group, Inc. He was appointed to the role of technical advisor for VASILY, Inc. starting in June 2014.[1]

Early life[edit]

Born in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, he was raised in Tottori from the age of four. According to an interview conducted by Japan Inc., he was a self-taught programmer until the end of high school.[2] 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.

オブジェクト指向スクリプト言語 Ruby  4-756-13254-5

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Ruby in a Nutshell  0-596-00214-9

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The Ruby Programming Language  0-596-51617-7

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Recognition[edit]

Matsumoto received the 2011 Award for the Advancement of Free Software from the Free Software Foundation (FSF) at the 2012 LibrePlanet conference at the University of Massachusetts Boston in Boston.[10]

Personal life[edit]

Matsumoto is married and has four children. He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,[11] having performed standard missionary service and become a counselor in the bishopric in his church ward.[12]

Ruby (programming language)

Ruby MRI

Ruby on Rails

(and translated to English with Google Translate) (in Japanese)

Matz's web diary

from IT Conversations

Ruby Design Principles talk

– An introduction to the language by its own author

The Ruby Programming Language

– Matz's writeup for the book Beautiful Code, edited by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, O'Reilly, 2007. ISBN 0-596-51004-7 ISBN 9780596510046

Treating Code as an Essay