Why did Matz choose to make Strings mutable in Ruby?

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Published on 2010-04-09T15:01:02Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 15:03 UTC
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It's the reverse of this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/93091/why-cant-strings-be-mutable-in-java-and-net

Was this choice made in Ruby only for efficiency, or was there some other reason?

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