Yukihiro Matsumoto

Yukihiro Matsumoto
まつもとゆきひろ

Yukihiro Matsumoto at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in Tokyo, 14 March 2007
Born (1965-04-14) 14 April 1965
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Nationality Japanese
Occupation Computer scientist, programmer, author
Known for Ruby
Religion Christian (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)[1]
Children 4
Matsumoto giving the keynote speech at EuRuKo 2011
Matsumoto accepting an award from the Free Software Foundation in 2012

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

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 organisation in Rakuten Inc. He was appointed to the role of technical advisor for VASILY, Inc. starting in June 2014.[2]

Early life

Born in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, 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.[3] 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.

Work

He works for the Japanese open source company, netlab.jp. Matsumoto is known as one of the open source evangelists in Japan. He has released several open source products, including cmail, the Emacs-based mail user agent, written entirely in Emacs Lisp. Ruby is his first piece of software that has become known outside Japan.[4]

Ruby

Matsumoto released the first version of the Ruby programming language on 21 December 1995.[5][6] He still leads the development of the language's reference implementation, MRI (for Matz's Ruby Interpreter).

MRuby

In April 2012, Matsumoto open-sourced his work on a new implementation of Ruby called mruby.[7][8] It is a minimal implementation based on his virtual machine, called ritevm, and is designed to allow software developers to embed Ruby in other programs while keeping memory footprint small and performance optimised.

streem

In December 2014, 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.[9]

Treasure Data

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.[10]

Written works

Recognition

Personal life

Matsumoto is married and has four children. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,[12] did standard service as a missionary and is now a counselor in the bishopric in his church ward.[13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Hi I'm まつもとゆきひろ (Matsumoto "Matz" Yukihiro)". mormon.org. Retrieved 12 December 2014. I am a computer programmer. I designed a programming language called ‘Ruby.’ I am a Mormon.
  2. ↑ "PRESSRELEASE - 株式会社VASILY(ヴァシリー)". vasily.jp.
  3. ↑ "The Man Who Gave Us Ruby". japaninc.com.
  4. ↑ "Yukihiro Matsumoto". oreilly.com. 1 February 2013.
  5. ↑ More archeolinguistics: unearthing proto-Ruby Archived 6 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ "[ruby-talk:00382] Re: history of ruby". nagaokaut.ac.jp.
  7. ↑ mruby source code
  8. ↑ Matt Aimonetti. "mruby and MobiRuby - Matt Aimonetti". aimonetti.net.
  9. ↑ "matz/streem". GitHub.
  10. ↑ http://www.treasuredata.com/company
  11. ↑ "2011 Free Software Awards announced". Free Software Foundation. 26 March 2012.
  12. ↑ "Hi I'm まつもとゆきひろ (Matsumoto "Matz" Yukihiro)". mormon.org. Retrieved 12 December 2014. I am a computer programmer. I designed a programming language called ‘Ruby.’ I am a Mormon.
  13. ↑ "Colloquium--Yukihiro Matsumoto". BYU. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
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