From: andreas.krohn@...
Date: 2006-11-08T22:25:07+09:00
Subject: Re: the name of Matz


Dido Sevilla wrote:
> On 11/7/06, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> > FYI, My family name is Matsumoto.  I don't see family-name-capital
> > convention much in the English speaking countries, I hesitated to do
> > so in public.  Just call me Matz.
>
> By the way, I never seem to have seen Matz's name in Kanji.  His name
> in the foreword of the Pickaxe book is all Hiragana.  I imagine it
> might be:
>
> 松本元達
>
> but then again, there seem to be hundreds of ways of writing ゆきひろ
> (Yukihiro) as a given name, and about a handful more ways to write the
> surname まつもと (Matsumoto).