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> Without Googling, name any famous developer from Japan. Or China. Or Russia. Many Ruby developers won't have a problem with this.
by dmunoz 13y ago
> Without Googling, name any famous developer from Japan. Or China. Or Russia.
Many Ruby developers won't have a problem with this.
- ScotterC 13y agoYup. Matz immediately came to mind. Also, to the question of english but not native would be Salvatore of Redis fame.
- angersock 13y agoSo, not to be mean, but can you name his FQJN (fully-qualified Japanese name) offhand? The score of people here saying "Matz" somewhat underscores the issue.
- w1ntermute 13y agoAnd how many people know that DHH is David Heinemeier Hansson? I don't think the use of a nickname or abbreviation is relevant.
- icelancer 13y agoMost, right? I don't write Ruby and I barely know who that is (I could pick him out of a lineup but that's about it) but I knew that.
- jrs99 13y agoThe thing about coming up with a Japanese name is that the names are going to be unfamiliar. Kind of like how I wouldn't be able to memorize 10 Swedish names as easily as I could British names. I'll remember a name like John Carmack much more easily than a name like Jonatan Söderström or Keiji Inafune.
- ScotterC 13y agoMatsumoto Yashamoto from memory. I'm probably off a few letters. EDIT: Yup I was way off. It's Yukihiro Matsumoto haha
- jeorgun 13y agoYukihiro Matsumoto. Do I win anything? In any case, I'm not really sure what the aim of the challenge was. Most anybody could probably name at least one non-native-English-speaking developer— Bjarne Stroustrup and Guido van Rossum both come to mind, maybe because I've got language developers on the brain. The only reason I can think of to restrict it to Japanese/Chinese/Russian developers is to use only nations with non-Latin character sets— which is a weird reason, and isn't a very compelling argument in favor of Portuguese localization.
- iopq 13y agoI've never written anything in Ruby and I know Matz
- bluedino 13y agoMatz came to mind the second I read that. And Russia? Alexey Pajitnov (Tetris).
- drdaeman 13y agoNot sure if Igor Sysoev is famous or not (his name wasn't remembered!), but his product certainly is.
- astrodust 13y agoHow him and Matz got omitted, I have no idea.
- daniel-cussen 13y agoTaiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya, are both from Japan, and I found their names again without googling. I just fired up ecl.
- msantos 13y agoRoberto Ierusalimschy Waldemar Celes Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo The folks behind Lua (programming language)
- schoen 13y agoThe Lua developers are Brazilians, hence also not from Japan, China, or Russia (as the original article asks for).
- msantos 13y agoI don't believe the OP actually meant, strictly speaking, Japan, China and Russia full stop. It was more like: name any famous developer from the non-English speaking world... And yes, the three names I listed are all Brazilians.
- gus_massa 13y agoIf you want only one programmer from the non-English speaking world, the canonical answer is: “Linus Torvalds”. My interpretation is that they wanted a programmer from a non-latin script language.
- Aloisius 13y agoI think it would be harder to state a famous developer from Japan, China or Russia that didn't also know modest English. I mean, Matz obviously knows English.
- joevandyk 13y agoalso igor of nginx.
- 10098 13y agoEven not counting Matsumoto, off the top of my head - Japan: Junya Ota (more known as ZUN, the author of Tohou series). Russia: Nikolay Likhachev (aka Kris Kaspersky) China: whoever made Baidu, can't remember their name without googling :)
- lflux 13y agoItojun, to which we owe a lot of IPv6 work.