Yukihiro Matsumoto
Yukihiro Matsumoto まつもと ゆきひろ | |
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松本 行弘 | |
Born | Osaka Prefecture, Japan | 14 April 1965
Other names | Matz |
Alma mater | University of Tsukuba (BS) Shimane University (PhD candidate) |
Occupation(s) | Computer scientist, programmer, author |
Known for | Ruby |
Children | 4 |
Yukihiro Matsumoto (まつもとゆきひろ, Matsumoto Yukihiro, born 14 April 1965), also known as Matz, is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language and its original reference implementation, Matz's Ruby Interpreter (MRI). His demeanor has brought about a motto in the Ruby community: "Matz is nice and so we are nice," commonly abbreviated as MINASWAN.
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 a fellow of the Rakuten Institute of Technology, a research and development organization within Rakuten Group, Inc. He was appointed to the role of technical advisor for VASILY, Inc. starting in June 2014.[1]
Early life
Born in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, he was raised in Tottori 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.[2] 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.
Work
He works for the Japanese open source company Netlab.jp. Matsumoto is known as one of the open-source evangelists in Japan. He has released several open source products, including cmail, the Emacs-based mail user agent, written entirely in Emacs Lisp. Ruby is his first piece of software that became known outside Japan.[3]
Ruby
Matsumoto released the first version of the Ruby programming language on 21 December 1995.[4][5] He still leads the development of the language's reference implementation, MRI (Matz's Ruby Interpreter).
mruby
In April 2012, Matsumoto open sourced his work on a new implementation of Ruby called mruby.[6][7] It is a minimal implementation based on his virtual machine, ritevm, and is designed to allow software developers to embed Ruby in other programs while keeping memory footprint small and performance optimized.
streem
In December 2014, Matsumoto open sourced his work on a new scripting language called streem, a concurrent language based on a programming model similar to shell, with influences from Ruby, Erlang, and other functional programming languages.[8]
Treasure Data
Matsumoto has been listed as an investor for Treasure Data; many of the company's programs such as Fluentd use Ruby as their primary language.[9]
Written works
- オブジェクト指向スクリプト言語 Ruby ISBN 4-756-13254-5
- Ruby in a Nutshell ISBN 0-596-00214-9
- The Ruby Programming Language ISBN 0-596-51617-7
Recognition
Matsumoto 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 Boston in Boston.[10]
Personal life
Matsumoto is married and has four children. He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,[11] having performed standard missionary service and become a counselor in the bishopric in his church ward.[12]
See also
References
- ^ "PRESSRELEASE – 株式会社VASILY(ヴァシリー)". vasily.jp.
- ^ "The Man Who Gave Us Ruby". japaninc.com.
- ^ "Yukihiro Matsumoto". O’Reilly. 1 February 2013.
- ^ More archeolinguistics: unearthing proto-Ruby Archived 6 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "[ruby-talk:00382] Re: history of ruby". nagaokaut.ac.jp.
- ^ "mruby: Lightweight Ruby". 2 November 2017 – via GitHub.
- ^ Matt Aimonetti. "mruby and MobiRuby – Matt Aimonetti". aimonetti.net.
- ^ "matz/streem". GitHub.
- ^ "Company – Treasure Data". Archived from the original on 3 May 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ^ "2011 Free Software Awards announced". Free Software Foundation. 26 March 2012.
- ^ "Hi I'm まつもとゆきひろ (Matsumoto "Matz" Yukihiro)". mormon.org. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
I am a computer programmer. I designed a programming language called 'Ruby.' I am a Mormon.
- ^ "Colloquium--Yukihiro Matsumoto". BYU. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
External links
- Matz's web diary (and translated to English with Google Translate) (in Japanese)
- 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
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