"Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one……" — Yukihiro Matsumoto
"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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19 Quotes by Yukihiro Matsumoto
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Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It…
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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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…
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I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to…
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I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby…
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Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how…
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It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking…
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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,…
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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.…
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Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a…
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example,…
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I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.
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