Yukihiro Matsumoto

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Yukihiro Matsumoto
まつもと ゆきひろ
松本 行弘
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in Tokyo, 14 March 2007
Born (1965-04-14) 14 April 1965 (age 59)
Other namesMatz
Alma materUniversity of Tsukuba (BS)
Shimane University (PhD candidate)
Occupation(s)Computer scientist, programmer, author
Known forRuby
Children4
Matsumoto giving the keynote speech at EuRuKo 2011
Matsumoto accepting an award from the Free Software Foundation (founder Richard Stallman, right) in 2012

Yukihiro Matsumoto (まつもとゆきひろ, Matsumoto Yukihiro, born 14 April 1965), also known as Matz, is a Japanese computer scientist and

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

Rakuten Institute of Technology, a research and development organization within Rakuten Group, Inc. He was appointed to the role of technical advisor for VASILY, Inc. starting in June 2014.[1]

Early life

Born in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, he was raised in Tottori 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.[2] 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 became known outside Japan.[3]

Ruby

Matsumoto released the first version of the Ruby programming language on 21 December 1995.[4][5] He still leads the development of the language's reference implementation, MRI (Matz's Ruby Interpreter).

mruby

In April 2012, Matsumoto open sourced his work on a new implementation of Ruby called mruby.[6][7] It is a minimal implementation based on his virtual machine, ritevm, and is designed to allow software developers to embed Ruby in other programs while keeping memory footprint small and performance optimized.

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.[8]

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.[9]

Written works

  • オブジェクト指向スクリプト言語 Ruby
  • Ruby in a Nutshell
  • The Ruby Programming Language

Recognition

Matsumoto received the 2011

Personal life

Matsumoto is married and has four children. He is a member of

missionary service and become a counselor in the bishopric in his church ward.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ "PRESSRELEASE – 株式会社VASILY(ヴァシリー)". vasily.jp.
  2. ^ "The Man Who Gave Us Ruby". japaninc.com. 8 November 2006.
  3. ^ "Yukihiro Matsumoto". O’Reilly. 1 February 2013.
  4. ^ More archeolinguistics: unearthing proto-Ruby Archived 6 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "[ruby-talk:00382] Re: history of ruby". nagaokaut.ac.jp.
  6. ^ "mruby: Lightweight Ruby". 2 November 2017 – via GitHub.
  7. ^ Matt Aimonetti (20 April 2012). "mruby and MobiRuby – Matt Aimonetti". aimonetti.net.
  8. ^ "matz/streem". GitHub.
  9. ^ "Company – Treasure Data". Archived from the original on 3 May 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  10. ^ "2011 Free Software Awards announced". Free Software Foundation. 26 March 2012.
  11. ^ "Hi I'm まつもとゆきひろ (Matsumoto "Matz" Yukihiro)". mormon.org. Archived from the original on 12 October 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2018. I am a computer programmer. I designed a programming language called 'Ruby.' I am a Mormon.
  12. ^ "Colloquium--Yukihiro Matsumoto". BYU. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2017.