"I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of……" — Yukihiro Matsumoto

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

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

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19 Quotes by Yukihiro Matsumoto

Yukihiro Matsumoto has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It…
The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be…
I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to…
I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby…
Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how…
It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking…
Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting,…
Most programs are not write-once. They are reworked and rewritten again and again in their lived. Bugs must be debugged.…
Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a…
Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language,…
From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example,…

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