Yukihiro Matsumoto
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| Yukihiro Matsumoto まつもとゆきひろ |
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 Yukihiro Matsumoto at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in Tokyo, 14 March 2007 |
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| Born | April 14, 1965 |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Computer scientist, programmer, author |
| Known for | Ruby |
| Children | 4 |
Yukihiro Matsumoto (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).
As of 2011[update], Matsumoto is the Chief Architect of Ruby at Heroku, an online cloud platform-as-a-service in San Francisco. He is the fellow of Rakuten Institute of Technology, a research and development organization in Rakuten Inc.
Matsumoto's name can be written using kanji: 松本行弘, but is normally written using hiragana: まつもとゆきひろ.
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[edit] Personal life
Born in Osaka Prefecture, he was raised in Tottori Prefecture 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.[1] 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. Matsumoto is married and has four children. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, did standard service as a missionary and is now a counselor in his church ward.[2].
[edit] Work
[edit] Ruby
Matz released the first version of the Ruby programming language on December 21, 1995[3][4] and he is still leading the development effort on the reference implementation often called MRI for Matz Ruby Implementation.
[edit] mruby
In April 2012, Matz opened sourced his work on a new implementation of the Ruby language called: mruby [5][6] , a minimal implementation based on his VM called ritevm and which is designed to allow software developers to embed Ruby in other programs while keeping memory footprint small and performance optimized.
[edit] Written works
- Ruby in a Nutshell ISBN 0-596-00214-9
- The Ruby Programming Language ISBN 0-596-51617-7
[edit] Online Presentations and Interviews
- Keynote from RubyConf 2010
- The 0.8 true language RubyConf 2009 Keynote Address, San Francisco, CA
- Interview about the design of programming languages from QCon San Francisco 2009
- Presentation about Ruby 1.9 from Google Tech Talks 2008
- Does Language Matter? RubyConf 2007 Keynote Address, Charlotte, North Carolina
[edit] See also
[edit] Recognition
- Matz 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 in Boston.[7]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
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- (Japanese) Matz's web diary (and translated to English with Google Translate)
- An interview by Artima Developer
- Ruby Design Principles talk from IT Conversations
- 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 0-596-51004-7 ISBN 9780596510046
- Rails Podcast Interview - An interview with Matz at RubyConf 2007 in Denver, Colorado
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