From: Marcelo <marcelo.magallon@...>
Date: 2008-06-03T06:04:10+09:00
Subject: Re: The duck's backside

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Enrico Franchi <riko@despammed.com> wrote:

>> Dave Thomas, who coined the term "duck typing", has described it as
>> "a way of thinking about programming in Ruby."
>
> Do you know when he actually started speaking about "duck typing"?

Did he?  I learned the term in connection with Python, a long long
time ago.  The wikipedia article on duck typing seems to support the
idea that the term comes from that camp:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing#History

Marcelo