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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Predicate Object
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, Japan
citizenship Japan
communityRole leader of the global Ruby community
created Ruby programming language
designed 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 ecosystem
influencedBy Ada
Eiffel
Lisp
Perl
Smalltalk
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
nationality Japanese
nativeName まつもとゆきひろ
notableIdea Ruby’s principle of programmer happiness
notableWork 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 programming language
website https://www.rubyist.net/~matz/

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