Most programs are not write-once. They are reworked and rewritten again and again in their lived. Bugs must be debugged. Changing requirements and the need for increased functionality mean the program itself may be modified on an ongoing basis. During… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible. — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design. — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity. — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
