From: Rick DeNatale Date: 2008-06-03T06:49:47+09:00 Subject: Re: The duck's backside ------=_Part_30345_9137110.1212443387057 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:07 PM, David A. Black wrote: > Hi -- > > > On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Marcelo wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Enrico Franchi >> 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... :-) Well, whoever coined "Duck Typing", I personally claim coinage of "Chicken Typing" on October 22, 2007: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/articles/2007/10/22/chicken-typing-isnt-duck-typing -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ ------=_Part_30345_9137110.1212443387057--