Yukihiro Matsumoto

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Yukihiro Matsumoto is a Japanese software engineer best known as the creator of the Ruby programming language and a prominent figure in the free software community.

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instanceOf computer programmer
free software advocate
person
software engineer
advocates free software
open source development model
alsoKnownAs Matz
birthDate 1965-04-14
birthPlace Osaka Prefecture
surface form: Osaka Prefecture, Japan
citizenship Japan
communityRole leader of the global Ruby community
created Ruby
surface form: Ruby programming language
designed Ruby
surface form: Ruby programming language
employer Heroku
Network Applied Communication Laboratory
field computer programming
programming language design
software engineering
gender male
hasChild four children
influenced Ruby community
Ruby on Rails
surface form: Ruby on Rails ecosystem
influencedBy Ada (programming language)
surface form: Ada

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Lisp programming language
surface form: Lisp

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knownFor advocacy of open source software
creating the Ruby programming language
designing the Ruby programming language
leadership in the Ruby community
language English
Japanese
memberOf Ruby Association
name Yukihiro Matsumoto self-link
nationality Japanese
nativeName まつもとゆきひろ
notableIdea Ruby’s principle of programmer happiness
notableWork Ruby
surface form: Ruby programming language
occupation open source software developer
programming language designer
software engineer
position Chief Architect of Ruby at Heroku
programmingLanguage Ruby
religion Christianity
residence Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, Japan
role Chief Architect of Ruby Association
speaksAt Ruby conferences worldwide
startedProject Ruby
surface form: Ruby programming language
website https://www.rubyist.net/~matz/

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Ruby designedBy Yukihiro Matsumoto
Yukihiro Matsumoto name Yukihiro Matsumoto self-link
MRI designedBy Yukihiro Matsumoto
MRI creator Yukihiro Matsumoto
mruby creator Yukihiro Matsumoto
Ruby License author Yukihiro Matsumoto
ISO/IEC 30170 primaryAuthorOfLanguage Yukihiro Matsumoto
Matz nicknameOf Yukihiro Matsumoto
Network Applied Communication Laboratory developer Yukihiro Matsumoto
subject surface form: Ruby programming language