the University of Massachusetts Boston in Boston. Personal life Matsumoto is married and has four children. He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, did standard service as a missionary and is now a counselor in the bishopric in his church ward. See also Ruby (programming language) Ruby MRI Ruby on Rails References External links Matz's web diary (and translated to English with Google Translate) Ruby Design Principles talk from IT Conversations The Ruby Programming Language – An introduction to the language by its own author Treating Code as an Essay – Matz's writeup for the book Beautiful Code, edited by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, O'Reilly, 2007. 1965 births Free software programmers Japanese computer programmers Japanese computer scientists Japanese Latter Day Saints Living people People from Osaka Prefecture People from Tottori Prefecture Programming language designers Rakuten Ruby (programming language) University of Tsukuba alumni