Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But it's just plain impossible to design a perfect language, because there are two ways to look at a language. One way is by looking at what can be done with that language. The other is by looking at how we feel using that language-how we feel while programming.
Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But it's just pl… - Yukihiro Matsumoto
Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But it's just pl…
- Yukihiro Matsumoto
It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible. - Yukihiro Matsumoto
It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.
The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity. - Yukihiro Matsumoto
The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
Most programs are not write-once. They are reworked and rewritten again and again in their lived. Bugs must be debugged. Changing requirements and th… - Yukihiro Matsumoto
Most programs are not write-once. They are reworked and rewritten again and again in their lived. Bugs must be debugged. Changing requirements and th…
I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to mak… - Yukihiro Matsumoto
I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to mak…
I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed to make programming not only easy but al… - Yukihiro Matsumoto
I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed to make programming not only easy but al…
Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software. - Yukihiro Matsumoto
Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.
Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programmin… - Yukihiro Matsumoto
Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programmin…
Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but th… - Yukihiro Matsumoto
Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but th…
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