I had a great programming languages prof who managed to instill a love of languages themselves in me. He gave a lecture entitled "Scheme as the Ultimate Program

I had a great programming languages prof who managed to instill a love of languages themselves in me. He gave a lecture entitled "Scheme as the Ultimate Programming Language", and his love for Scheme was pretty clear throughout multiple classes I had with him. I didn't ever find a practical use for Scheme per se, but his passion stuck with me, and when I discovered Ruby and how it took some of the more clever naming conventions from Scheme, that gave me the push I needed to really dig in and learn Ruby, which is now my favorite language to code in. Matz has definitely managed to fulfill his goal and make programming using Ruby a joy for thousands of programmers. Thanks Matz, and congrats to the entire Ruby community!