Yukihiro Matsumoto
Yukihiro Matsumoto ( Japanese 松本 行 弘 Matsumoto Yukihiro ; born April 14, 1965 in Tottori Prefecture ) developed the Ruby programming language and is still responsible for it today. He also worked as a programmer in Japan for the open source company netlab.jp .
Matsumoto studied computer science at Tsukuba University , where he was part of research groups for programming languages and compilers .
He is Head of the Network Applied Communications Laboratory (NaCl), Fellow at the Rakuten Institute of Technology and, since 2011, Chief Architect of Ruby at the PaaS provider Heroku .
Matsumoto was honored with the FSF Award 2011 for developing Ruby and for many years working on GNU and other free software projects .
Works
- Ruby in a Nutshell , O'Reilly, 1st edition 2001, ISBN 0-5960-0214-9
- The Ruby Programming Language , O'Reilly, 1st edition 2008, ISBN 0-5965-1617-7
Web link
- Netlab.jp (Japanese)
swell
- ^ Ruby Creator "Matz" Matsumoto Joins Heroku As Chief Architect
- ^ Matt Lee: 2011 Free Software Awards announced , fsf.org, March 26, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Matsumoto, Yukihiro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 松本 行 弘 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese open source programmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tottori Prefecture |