Matz talks about Ruby

10 phrases in Japanese
2010-01-14

Yukihiro Matsumoto (まつもとゆきひろ), the creator of the Ruby programming language, recorded these phrases about Ruby and programming at RubyConf 2009.

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hash rocket ( => )

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object.method

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Closures may be used to implement objects, and object may be used to implement closures.

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Modules are Ruby's way of doing mixins.

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The dynamic nature of Ruby makes it particularly effective for implementing domain specific languages.

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I love programming in Ruby.

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Modules tame the madness of multiple inheritance.

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A common use case for Ruby's block syntax is the implementation of iterators.

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the shovel operator

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To create an anonymous function, we use lambda.