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 ## The Author
 
-Ruby was originally designed and developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz) in
-1995.
+Ruby was originally designed and developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz) in 1995.
 
 <matz@ruby-lang.org>