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"Japanese people were surprised about the news since he made that in his age." As opposed to most other people, who were not surprised at all? I agree though,
by tsestrich 17y ago
"Japanese people were surprised about the news since he made that in his age."
As opposed to most other people, who were not surprised at all?
I agree though, the title implies that he improved all of Ruby's performance... even though it was just several methods. Still cool that he got into this kind of project at a young age, but it's not like he re-wrote a bunch of algorithms or something....
- UncleOxidant 17y ago"His mentor was Koichi Sasada (ko1)." That's the guy who wrote YARV. So it's not too surprising that ko1 would point him in the right direction.
- jriddycuz 17y agoI don't know if the author meant to draw attention to "Japanese" in the sense that these people were especially surprised because they were Japanese and not of some other nationality. But I do wonder if the Hacker-Wunderkind archetype is less well-known in Japan than it is here. I don't even think most westerners would be particularly surprised by a kid making a difference in software development because of the popular (if a bit exaggerated) notion of a young guy sitting in his garage at a computer writing crazy programs.