The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

23 years of Ruby (Interview)

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Big show! Matz, creator of the Ruby programming language, joined the show to discuss where he began as a programmer, the origins of Ruby, its history and future, Ruby 3.0, concurrency and parallelism, Streem, Erlang, Elixir, and more.

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    Show Notes:

    • Yukihiro Matsumoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Ruby Programming Language
    • Ruby (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • matz/streem: prototype of stream based programming language
    • Pascal (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Lisp (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Smalltalk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • mruby/mruby: Lightweight Ruby
    • Larry Wall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Alan Kay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • John McCarthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Ruby Issue Tracking System

      • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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