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Yukihiro Matsumoto Quotes

born 1965 Japan

Yukihiro Matsumoto (born 14 April 1965), a.k.a. Matz, 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).

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Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people.

Pat Eyler (2009)

Computers are not very smart. They don't understand human language, so we have to tell them what to do in a language that both humans and computers can understand.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Yukihiro Matsumoto (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.