From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-08-07T04:05:35+09:00
Subject: Re: the perens in lisp dilects is there for a reson... macros.

Hi --

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> 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. :)

Whoops, I was wrong; it was 1993.  See
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/382


David

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