Yukihiro Matsumoto
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Yukihiro Matsumotois 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. His demeanor has brought about a motto in the Ruby community: "Matz is nice and so we are nice," commonly abbreviated as MINASWAN...
directly people python ruby runs tries
Sometimes people jot down pseudo-code on paper. If that pseudo-code runs directly on their computers, it's best, isn't it? Ruby tries to be like that, like pseudo-code that runs. Python people say that too.
writing keyboards messages
Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but the message will be sent to a human over the internet. So you are working before the computer, but with a human behind the computer.
writing men drawing
Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.
fun stress believe
I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed to make programming not only easy but also fun. It allows you to concentrate on the creative side of programming, with less stress.
complexity features
The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
responsibility language looking-good
It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.
language program quotes wants
Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.