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Yukihiro Matsumoto
松本行弘 (まつもとゆきひろ)
Yukihiro Matsumoto.JPG
Yukihiro Matsumoto at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in Tokyo, 14 March 2007
Born ) 14 April 1965 (age 48)
Nationality Japanese
Occupation Computer scientist, programmer, author
Known for Ruby
Children 4

Yukihiro Matsumoto (松本行弘 (まつもとゆきひろ) 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 and its reference implementation, Matz's Ruby Interpreter (MRI).

As of 2011, Matsumoto is the Chief Architect of Ruby at Heroku, an online cloud platform-as-a-service in San Francisco. He is a fellow of Rakuten Institute of Technology, a research and development organization in Rakuten Inc.

Matsumoto's name can be written using kanji: 松本行弘, but is normally written using hiragana: まつもとゆきひろ.

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Personal life

Born in Osaka Prefecture, he was raised in Tottori Prefecture from the age of four. According to an interview conducted by Japan Inc., he was a self-taught programmer until the end of high school.[1] He 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. Matsumoto is married and has four children. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, did standard service as a missionary and is now a counselor in his church ward.[2]

Work

Ruby

Matz released the first version of the Ruby programming language on 21 December 1995[3][4] and he is still leading the development effort on the reference implementation often called MRI for Matz Ruby Implementation.

mruby

In April 2012, Matz open-sourced his work on a new implementation of the Ruby language called: mruby [5][6] , a minimal implementation based on his VM called ritevm and which is designed to allow software developers to embed Ruby in other programs while keeping memory footprint small and performance optimized.

Written works

Online presentations and interviews

See also

Recognition

References

External links