“Language designers want to design the perfect language. ... But it's just not true. A language is a tool, and it has to be good for certain things.”

About Yukihiro Matsumoto

Computer Scientist • Japanese

Yukihiro Matsumoto, widely known as Matz, is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language. He began developing Ruby in 1993, aiming to create a...