There are also many Japanese programmers who are the authors of some very important contributions to widely used open source software projects. A typical examp

There are also many Japanese programmers who are the authors of some very important contributions to widely used open source software projects. A typical example of such work, characterized by careful optimizations, was the GotoBLAS library of Gotō Kazushige, which at the time of its introduction (two decades ago) was a great advance for open-source numeric programs and it has strongly influenced all the later open-source linear algebra libraries.