Speaker: Yukihiro Matsumoto Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matsumoto Yukihiro, a.k.a. Matz, born 14 April 1965) is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language.
He was born in Osaka Prefecture, in western Honshu. According to an interview conducted by Japan Inc., he was a self-taught programmer until the end of high school. He graduated with an information science degree from Tsukuba University, where he associated himself with research departments dealing with programming languages and compilers.
As of 2006, Matsumoto is the head of the research and development department at the Network Applied Communication Laboratory, an open source systems integrator company in Shimane prefecture. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served as a missionary for the church. Matsumoto is married and has four children.
I think Matz is a Buddha. People within a 5 foot radius of him start smiling and feel vaguely smarter and happier.
Shoot3r101(September 5, 2008 at 6:50 pm)
man this guy is SMART holy moly.
scottburton11(May 7, 2008 at 6:59 am)
Emuliator.
natlang1(May 2, 2008 at 1:21 pm)
Cool, Ruby 2 and Perl 6 will both be released on the same day - Christmas.
kristonholt(April 30, 2008 at 10:27 pm)
how do i download ruby? when i try to download it i need a program to open it what should i use?
nkchenz(April 10, 2008 at 10:19 am)
very good and interesting
dav231988(March 12, 2008 at 5:07 pm)
Ruby and Matz roxrz!
JonThm(February 28, 2008 at 9:39 pm)
GW is nuclear power fiction! Google a stooge.
lfecdr(February 28, 2008 at 2:30 pm)
Where I can download subtitles?
s1e(February 27, 2008 at 12:21 am)
Hehe, Matz rocks. The last question was a bit awkward, but it showed Ruby's beauty The Hash object at the bottom of the arguments list Matz was explaining about, can actually have the brackets omitted, but is still interpreted as :a =>hash. When you want to pass another hash in the parameter, you have to explicitly wrap them both in brackets, or instantiate by Hash#new If you have a function def google(opts) puts opts[:foo] + boo end This is how it looks google {:boo =>"foo"}, {:far =>"bar"}
s1e(February 27, 2008 at 12:20 am)
BUT since the latter hash is actually just for named parameters, you can probably pass both hash and the named param like google {:foo =>"bar}, :boo =>"far" and Ruby should interpret it fine It's questionable whether Rails should be rewritten to simply use variables instantiated by named params instead of internally deciphering them from an options hash I'm not in posession of 2.0, so I some of this is speculative, hope it helps though :-)
