In 1993 Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto decided to a create a new programming language, one inspired by languages like Perl, Python, Smalltalk and Lisp but tuned towards Matsumoto’s own needs and preferences. Matsumoto’s preferences resonated with a lot of developers and today Ruby is one of the most popular development languages around.
Today Heroku, a Ruby platform-as-a-service provider owned by Salesforce.com, announced that Matsumoto is joining the company as the chief architect of Ruby.
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