From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-08-07T07:41:37+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:
>> 
>> Whoops, I was wrong; it was 1993.  See
>> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/382
> Thanks!! In February of 1993, I was just starting on the project that has 
> consumed most of my "paid programming" time since then. It started out as 
> Korn shell augmented with "gawk" for the more complicated pieces, then got 
> migrated to Perl 4 as soon as I discovered Perl 4. It picked up the R 
> component about 2000, but it's still mostly Perl 4. The Java 1.1 program was 
> done in 1997.
>
> So, going back to another thread, it looks like the "core language" of Ruby 
> is the object model and the Perl features. Is there by any chance a place 
> where I could get the Ruby 1.0 source? That might be *very* interesting.

ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.0.  Nothing before 1.0, as far as I
can find.


David

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