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Yup. Matz immediately came to mind. Also, to the question of english but not native would be Salvatore of Redis fame.
by ScotterC 13y ago
Yup. 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.