12 Facts About Yukihiro Matsumoto

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Yukihiro Matsumoto, known as Matz, is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language and its original reference implementation, Matz's Ruby Interpreter.

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Yukihiro Matsumoto's demeanor has brought about a motto in the Ruby community: "Matz is nice and so we are nice," commonly abbreviated as MINASWAN.

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Yukihiro Matsumoto is a fellow of Rakuten Institute of Technology, a research and development organization in Rakuten Inc Yukihiro Matsumoto was appointed to the role of technical advisor for VASILY, Inc starting in June 2014.

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Yukihiro Matsumoto graduated with an information science degree from University of Tsukuba, where he was a member of Ikuo Nakata's research lab on programming languages and compilers.

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Yukihiro Matsumoto is known as one of the open source evangelists in Japan.

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Yukihiro Matsumoto has released several open source products, including cmail, the Emacs-based mail user agent, written entirely in Emacs Lisp.

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Yukihiro Matsumoto released the first version of the Ruby programming language on 21 December 1995.

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Yukihiro Matsumoto still leads the development of the language's reference implementation, MRI.

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In December 2014, Yukihiro Matsumoto open-sourced his work on a new scripting language called streem, a concurrent language based on a programming model similar to shell, with influences from Ruby, Erlang and other functional programming languages.

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Yukihiro Matsumoto has been listed as an investor for Treasure Data; many of the company's programs such as Fluentd use Ruby as their primary language.

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Yukihiro Matsumoto received the 2011 Award for the Advancement of Free Software from the Free Software Foundation at the 2012 LibrePlanet conference at the University of Massachusetts Boston in Boston.

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Yukihiro Matsumoto is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, did standard service as a missionary and is a counselor in the bishopric in his church ward.