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Although the article is about the entire software industry of Japan, and not about the efforts of one individual, I feel like it does a great disservice to not
by jimmcslim 4y ago
Although the article is about the entire software industry of Japan, and not about the efforts of one individual, I feel like it does a great disservice to not mention Yukihiro Matsumoto, aka Matz, the inventor of Ruby? Since 1995. How many startups have been launched with that platform as their basis?
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- pvg 4y agoThis might be true but generally we don't count, say, Python- or semaphore- using startups as successes of the Dutch software industry, unless they are Dutch startups.
- G3rn0ti 4y agoAlso we should not forget the history of the MSX platform that is tied to the ASCII Corp. in Tokyo. It was an early 80s startup led by Kazuhiko Nishi who licensed MS Basic and introduced MS products to Japan for the first time. Later it became the de facto Basic standard for the MSX platform that kind of dominated personal computing in the 80s (similar to how Commodore and Spectrum dominated that market in Europe during the same time). There is this cute photo of Nishi-san posing next to the young Bill Gates: https://ozeidi.wordpress.com/2015/10/10/my-first-personal-computer-ax170/ https://ozeidi.wordpress.com/2015/10/10/my-first-personal-co... This gives a good overview on Ascii Corp: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_Corporation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_Corporation
- golemiprague 4y ago[dead]