"From the viewpoint of what you can do,……" — Yukihiro Matsumoto
"From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer."
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19 Quotes by Yukihiro Matsumoto
Yukihiro Matsumoto has 19 quotes on this site.
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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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Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language,…
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I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides.…
— Ruth Benedict
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The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its…
— John Desmond Bernal
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As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ…
— Annie Besant
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So…
— Bill Bowerman
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One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without…
— Kyle Chandler
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If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what…
— Amy Carmichael
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
— Moliere
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There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really…
— Seth Shostak
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I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The time of business does not differ with me from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter…
— Brother Lawrence
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Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in…
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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