From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-05-15T05:22:02+09:00
Subject: Re: What is  Ruby for?

Hi,

In message "Re: What is  Ruby for?"
    on 02/05/14, "Jason Voegele" <jason@jvoegele.com> writes:

|I was in a book store the other day and saw a book called "Software 
|Engineering: A Japanese Perspective" that was co-authored by a Yoshihiro 
|Matsumoto.  I wondered if that was matz with an alternate spelling for the 
|first name.
|
|Is that you, matz?

No.  It is sometimes pretty hard to distinguish Japanese names for
Westerners.  That's why I use "matz" as a nickname.

							matz.