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Masaru Ishii, a great Japanese Rubyist, died at the rail disaster, where 106 people died. He introduced RubyUnit with the author¹, Suketa-san. It was the predecessor of the current Test::Unit in Ruby 1.8.

I love unit testing. I pay his last respects. I don’t know what to say in English. I hope I don’t use incorrect words. I learned RubyUnit from Suketa-san’s book.

¹ According to this blog, Ishii-san asked Suketa-san to create a Ruby implementation of xUnit.