Ruby 1.9

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Google Tech Talks
February, 20 2008

ABSTRACT

Ruby 1.9

Speaker: Yukihiro Matsumoto
Yukihiro Matsumoto (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.

He was born in Osaka Prefecture, in western Honshu. According to an interview conducted by Japan Inc., he was a self-taught programmer until the end of high school. He graduated with an information science degree from Tsukuba University, where he associated himself with research departments dealing with programming languages and compilers.

As of 2006, Matsumoto is the head of the research and development department at the Network Applied Communication Laboratory, an open source systems integrator company in Shimane prefecture. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served as a missionary for the church. Matsumoto is married and has four children.





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Uploaded: February 22, 2008 at 5:19 am
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Video Comments:
nexus2xl (September 29, 2008 at 12:14 am)
"Nothing googley" MUAHAHAHA Proprietary secrets!!
sgharms (September 5, 2008 at 9:42 pm)
I think Matz is a Buddha. People within a 5 foot radius of him start smiling and feel vaguely smarter and happier.
Shoot3r101 (September 5, 2008 at 2:50 pm)
man this guy is SMART holy moly.
scottburton11 (May 7, 2008 at 2:59 am)
Emuliator.
natlang1 (May 2, 2008 at 9:21 am)
Cool, Ruby 2 and Perl 6 will both be released on the same day - Christmas.
kristonholt (April 30, 2008 at 6:27 pm)
how do i download ruby? when i try to download it i need a program to open it what should i use?
nkchenz (April 10, 2008 at 6:19 am)
very good and interesting
dav231988 (March 12, 2008 at 1:07 pm)
Ruby and Matz roxrz!
JonThm (February 28, 2008 at 4:39 pm)
GW is nuclear power fiction! Google a stooge.
lfecdr (February 28, 2008 at 9:30 am)
Where I can download subtitles?