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.
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.
- 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
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…
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…
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 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…
Plant a memory, plant a tree, do it today for tomorrow. - Yukihiro Matsumoto
Plant a memory, plant a tree, do it today for tomorrow.
The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity. - Yukihiro Matsumoto
The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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…
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.
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