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title: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:58:00 +0000
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James Iry:

> 1995 - Yukihiro "Mad Matz" Matsumoto creates Ruby to avert some vaguely unspecified apocalypse that will leave Australia a desert run by mohawked warriors and Tina Turner. The language is later renamed Ruby on Rails by its real inventor, David Heinemeier Hansson. [The bit about Matsumoto inventing a language called Ruby never happened and better be removed in the next revision of this article - DHH].