Yukihiro Matsumoto Quotes


I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design. Yukihiro Matsumoto Design 75
In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use. Yukihiro Matsumoto Built 40
From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer. Yukihiro Matsumoto Almost 39
The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity. Yukihiro Matsumoto Combined 33
Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually. Yukihiro Matsumoto Design 27
Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose. Yukihiro Matsumoto Choose 26
Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans. Yukihiro Matsumoto Calculation 21

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