Quotes by Yukihiro Matsumoto - Page 1

Plant a memory, plant a tree, do it today for tomorrow.
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Memories
Today
Tree
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Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.
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Ordinary
People
Smart
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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Complexity
Features
Combined
Explode
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I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.
Yukihiro Matsumoto / Computer Scientist
Design
Consistency
Tools
Design Believe I Believe
Primary
Primary Goal
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It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.
Yukihiro Matsumoto / Computer Scientist
Language
Looking Good
Responsibility
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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, drawing, or music, I can write software.
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Men
Drawing
Writing
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I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language.
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Purpose
Rubies
World
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You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.
Yukihiro Matsumoto / Computer Scientist
Enjoy Life
Purpose
Life Good Better
Life Good Enjoy Life
Partly
Quickly
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
Yukihiro Matsumoto / Computer Scientist
Counting
Example
Humans
Numbers
Tax
Calculation
Consists
For Example
Pull
Wallet
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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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Example
Python
Languages
Differ
For Example
Limited
Programmer
Provide
Ruby
Therefore
Viewpoint
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Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines.
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Focus
Needs
People
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People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
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Alternatives
Criteria
Better People Way
Better Way
Different People
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Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.
Yukihiro Matsumoto / Computer Scientist
Design
Surprise
Claim
Follows
Principle
Ruby
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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Hero
Larry
Perl
Philosophy
Users
Wall
Choose
Inherited
Ruby
Same Thing
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In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.
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Class
Process
Processing
Strings
Daily
Daily Lives
Expressions
Namely
String
Text
Tried
Tuned
Work Hard
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I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed to make programming not only easy but also fun. It allows you to concentrate on the creative side of programming, with less stress.
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Believe
Fun
Stress
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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, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.
Yukihiro Matsumoto / Computer Scientist
Completeness
Cost
Program
Theory
Anymore
Theoretically
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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 perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.
Yukihiro Matsumoto / Computer Scientist
Hard
Hard Work
Language
Not Perfect
Perfect
Python
Everyone
Differently
Maybe
Ruby
Tried
Van
Work Hard
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Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but the message will be sent to a human over the internet. So you are working before the computer, but with a human behind the computer.
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Email
Messages
Writing
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Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But it's just plain impossible to design a perfect language, because there are two ways to look at a language. One way is by looking at what can be done with that language. The other is by looking at how we feel using that language-how we feel while programming.
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Design
Perfect
Two
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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. Changing requirements and the need for increased functionality mean the program itself may be modified on an ongoing basis. During this process, human beings must be able to read and understand the original code. It is therefore more important by far for humans to be able to understand the program than it is for the computer.
Yukihiro Matsumoto / Computer Scientist
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Writing
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