Technology Quotes by Yukihiro Matsumoto

8 Technology quotes by Yukihiro Matsumoto

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Yukihiro Matsumoto’s eight short statements on technology celebrate the joy of programming and the philosophy behind Ruby. The page offers a quick, light‑hearted glimpse into his developer‑centric outlook.

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It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.

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I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for…

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I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy.…

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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and…

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Most programs are not write-once. They are reworked and rewritten again and again in their lived. Bugs must be debugged. Changing requirements…

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Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at…

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I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed…

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In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely…

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Plant a memory, plant a tree, do it today for tomorrow.

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It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.

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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…

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I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

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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…

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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…

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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

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Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But…

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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…

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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who…

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I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is…

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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide…

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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…

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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out…

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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…

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