From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-08-07T03:11:52+09:00
Subject: Re: the perens in lisp dilects is there for a reson... macros.

dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>
>> dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
>>> I think Ruby is slightly older than Java, isn't it? :-)
>> Maybe ... Java is 1.5 and Ruby is 1.8.5, so by that measure, yes.
>
> No, I meant older as in... older :-)  Ruby's birthday is traditionally
> February 1994 (I can't remember the exact day), and I seem to remember
> that that predates Java, but I'm not sure.
Where can one find "a brief history of Ruby?" I'm too lazy to ask 
Google, especially when Matz is on the list. :)

For that matter, how did *Google* get its name, and does it have 
anything to do with Barney Google? :)