An Interview with Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto

I saw Matz in Saigon.<p>After his presentation, and during Q/A, someone asked Matz for help on their program. Matz walked over, crouched next to this young developer, and looked over their code. Gave some feedback, walked up to the podium and started answering more questions.<p>Really nice person.

The most fascinating part of this article to me is getting the perspective of two southeast Asians on language popularity. Also interesting to learn that golang.org is blocked by the Great Firewall.

While I can't read much of any CJK languages, I am interested in seeing code samples from these Chinese and Japanese programming languages.<p>Anyone know where to look? What obstacles or advantages does the character sets give these languages?

Can you please remove the anchor from the submitted URL? Thanks.

I disagree with basically everything he said about Lisp: first of all, Common Lisp was the frontrunner for several decades, and can hardly be described as having the "smallest, cleanest core". Furthermore, Clojure has been reasonably successful in the past few years, and continues to increase in popularity. It doesn't have the commercial backing of C# or Java, nor does it have the head start of Python or Ruby, but it's getting there.