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Actually Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, designer of Ruby is Japanese. It's pretty ironic, isn't it?
by yuchi 14y ago
Actually Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, designer of Ruby is Japanese. It's pretty ironic, isn't it?
- Twisol 14y agoSeems rather apropos, really.
- bradleyland 14y agoIt's not ironic at all. One would expect that authors using a particular keyboard layout would tend to favor characters that are easy to type. In that way, it's the opposite of irony. The outcome is exactly what we'd expect.
- blahedo 14y agoSee also the keyboard used to develop the original vi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Terminal_ADM3A.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Terminal_ADM3A.svg
- yuchi 14y agoThat explains also the tilde=home :) A recent article I've read somewhere explains it very well!
- yuchi 14y ago> It's not ironic at all. Ironically, my sentence was sarcastic. :) OT: As far as you guys know, is there a language-agnostic keyboard for programmers?