From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-08-07T22:51:44+09:00
Subject: Re: the perens in lisp dilects is there for a reson... macros.

Hi,

In message "Re: the perens in lisp dilects is there for a reson... macros."
    on Mon, 7 Aug 2006 03:04:47 +0900, dblack@wobblini.net writes:

|Ruby's birthday is traditionally
|February 1994 (I can't remember the exact day),

It was 1993-02-24 for the record.

|and I seem to remember
|that that predates Java, but I'm not sure.

The first release date of the Java language white paper was somewhere
in 1994, so you might think Ruby predates Java, but in fact:

  * the development of the Java language (formerly named Oak language)
    started in 1991, if I remember correctly.
  * the first public release of Ruby was December 1995.

As a conclusion, Java is slightly older than Ruby.

							matz.