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LoneStar RubyConf 2008 - Ruby Past Present and Future

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  • Presented by Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of Ruby

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Yukihiro Matsumoto discusses the history, design philosophy, and future direction of the Ruby programming language.

Ruby Past Present and Future by: yukihiro Matsumoto 'Matz'

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What people say. Recommended to understand why Ruby does not use a single internal Unicode encoding for strings.

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On “The Tragedy of UCS-2”

And in case anyone is wondering, that is one of the main reasons Ruby (a Japanese programming language) will not use exclusively Unicode for internal string encoding – so the user can opt-in for another, more accurate encoding for East Asian text without fear of losing any information on roundtripping or unsupported characters. Edit: Matsumoto himself explains it here (from 23:23, couldn't find a better quality version): link to this video
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