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For me, the purpose of life is, at least partly, to have joy. | |
Programmers often feel joy when they can concentrate on the creative | |
side of programming, So Ruby is designed to make programmers happy. | |
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. People are different. People choose | |
different criteria. But if there is a better way among many | |
alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. | |
So that's what I've tried to do. | |
I want to solve problems I meet in the daily life by using computers, | |
so I need to write programs. By using Ruby, I want to concentrate the | |
things I do, not the magical rules of the language, like starting with | |
public void something something something to say, "print hello world." | |
I just want to say, "print this!" I don't want all the surrounding | |
magic keywords. I just want to concentrate on the task. That's the basic | |
idea. So I have tried to make Ruby code concise and succinct. | |
Yukihiro Matsumoto. (http://www.artima.com/intv/rubyP.html) |
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