Ruby’s creator, Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz), released the first public version of the programming language in December 1995, making Ruby just shy of its 30th birthday.It spread across Japanese ...

Ruby was created by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, who is said to have been influenced by his favorite languages—Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada and Lisp. The language hit the streets in 1995.

It’s not quite the first question you expect to hear uttered by a keynote speaker at a programming conference, but this is the genial, Japanese creator of the Ruby programming language, Yukihiro ...

Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto created Ruby in 1993 and released it to the public in 1995. Since then, Ruby and the framework Ruby on Rails have taken off, earning a seat at the programming table along si ...