Yukihiro Matsumoto
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| Born | April 14, 1965 |
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| Religious beliefs | Mormon |
Yukihiro Matsumoto (松本行弘 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, called Matz's Ruby Interpreter (MRI).
He was born in Osaka Prefecture, in western Honshū. According to an interview conducted by Japan Inc., he was a self-taught programmer until the end of high school. He graduated with an information science degree from Tsukuba University, where he associated himself with research departments dealing with programming languages and compilers.
As of 2006, Matsumoto is the head of the research and development department at the Network Applied Communication Laboratory, an open source systems integrator company in Shimane prefecture. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served as a missionary for the church. Matsumoto is married and has four children.
The photo at right was taken in Tokyo on March 14, 2007, at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, sponsored by IBM. Matz was a keynote speaker.
[edit] Written works
- Ruby in a Nutshell ISBN 0-596-00214-9
- The Ruby Programming Language ISBN 0-596-51617-7
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Matz's web diary - Translated to English with Google Translate
- (Japanese) Matz's web diary
- An interview by Japan Inc.
- An interview by Artima Developer
- Ruby Design Principles talk from IT Conversations
- (Spanish) An Interview in Spanish published on November 24, 2005
- The Ruby Programming Language - An introduction to the language by its own author
- Treating Code as an Essay - Matz's writeup for the book Beautiful Code, edited by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, O'Reilly, 2007. ISBN 0596510047 ISBN 9780596510046
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