Yukihiro Matsumoto

Yukihiro Matsumoto まつもとゆきひろ
Yukihiro Matsumoto at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in Tokyo, 14 March 2007
Born	April 14, 1965 (1965-04-14) (age 46)
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).

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.

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.

As of 2011^[update], Matsumoto is the Chief Architect, Ruby at Heroku, an online cloud PaaS in San Francisco. He is the fellow of Rakuten Institute of Technology, an R&D organization in Rakuten Inc. Matsumoto is married and has four children.

Written works

• Ruby in a Nutshell ISBN 0-596-00214-9
• The Ruby Programming Language ISBN 0-596-51617-7

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

See also

• Ruby programming language
• Ruby on Rails

References

1. ^ An interview by Japan Inc.

External links

• (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 0596510047 ISBN 9780596510046
• Rails Podcast Interview - An interview with Matz at RubyConf 2007 in Denver, Colorado

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