Yukihiro Matsumoto

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
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 (1965-04-14) 14 April 1965 (age 58)
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Nationality Japanese
Occupation Computer scientist, programmer, author
Known for Ruby
Children 4
Matsumoto giving the keynote speech at EuRuKo 2011
Matsumoto accepting an award from the Free Software Foundation in 2012

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). 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]

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.

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 worked for the Japanese open source company, netlab.jp. Matsumoto is also known as one of the open source evangelists in Japan. He's 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 of 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's 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. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. More archeolinguistics: unearthing proto-Ruby
  6. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. mruby source code
  8. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. http://www.treasuredata.com/company
  11. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links