Yukihiro Matsumoto

Matz, inventor of RubyLanguage.

How many parallels can you think of between him and LarryWall?

For example, they were both Christian missionaries at one point. (though I think for one, it was only an unrealized goal.)

;)

"Major props for this bitchen language, Holmes" --PhlIp [on the Ruby newsgroup, and still wondering if anyone managed to translate it to Japanese...]