From: Adrian Howard <adrianh@...>
Date: 2005-08-13T05:14:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Performance


On 12 Aug 2005, at 18:41, tony summerfelt wrote:
[snip]
> i think python has been out there as long as perl has? seems to me i
> read that somewhere...
[snip]

Depends when you start counting.

1987    Perl 1.0
1991    Python 0.9
1991    Perl 4.0
1994    Perl 5.0
1995    Ruby 0.95
1997    PHP 3.0
1998    PHP 4.0
2000    Python 2.0
2003    Ruby 1.8
2004    PHP 5.0

Younger than Perl 1, but older than Perl 5 (which, in my opinion  
anyway, was the first version of Perl that you could actually use for  
serious applications).

Adrian