From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-06-03T06:07:29+09:00
Subject: Re: The duck's backside

Hi --

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Marcelo wrote:

> 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

I could be wrong about Dave having coined it. If it walks like a
coinage and talks like a coinage... :-)


David

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