http://www.bartgdev.com/articles/2006/08/21/words-to-program-by-by-yukihiro-matsumoto en-us 40 <b>Dev</b>eloping well <b>dev</b>ised applications <p>I found the following articles/interviews with Ruby's creator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto">Yukihiro Matsumoto</a> very interesting. They gave me a new insight into why Ruby is such a pleasure to work with. </p> <p>My favorite quote is from <a href="http://www.artima.com/intv/ruby.html">this</a> interview:<br /><br /> <i>Most of our tasks are related to humans after all. So in programming, either we ask the computer to work for a human, or we describe our thoughts to a computer in a very unambiguous way that even computer can execute. In the first case, making the computer work for humans, the target is a human through the computer. In the second case, expressing our thoughts clearly enough to be understood and executed by computers, we express intent from our human brains and as a result it is performed by the computers. So in both cases the object here is human. </i><br /> - Yukihiro Matsumoto<br /> <br /> <p>This is a great article by Yukihiro Matsumoto<br /> <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=18225&redir=1&rl=1 ">The Ruby Programming Language</a><br /> <i>"Ruby's primary focus is productivity of program development, and users will find that programming in Ruby is productive and even fun. "</i> </p> <br /> <p>More quotes <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/y/yukihiro_matsumoto.html">here</a> and <a href="http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/yukihiro_matsumoto/">here</a>. </p> <p>To top this post off, some Rails <a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org/quotes">quotes</a>. Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:32:00 -0500 urn:uuid:6ef20e2e-b3df-4a1a-a605-08e5aa3c653a Bart http://www.bartgdev.com/articles/2006/08/21/words-to-program-by-by-yukihiro-matsumoto Rails Ruby http://www.bartgdev.com/articles/trackback/9