Ruby 语言的设计者松本行弘 [Mastumoto Yukihiro] 著有一本 “松本行弘的程序世界”, 已由人民邮电出版社出版.

英国计算机科学家 Peter Landin 引入了术语 “语法糖”, 指为编程语言添加某种语法, 这种语法虽对语言本身功能并无实质影响, 但为程序员编程提供了便利.

Unification is an algorithmic process of solving equations between symbolic expressions, each of the form LHS = RHS.

Bruce ¹:

What is a feature that you would like to change, if you could go back in time?

Matz ²:

I would remove the thread and add actors or some other more advanced concurrency features.