From: Alwyn Date: 2002-05-09T04:18:34+09:00 Subject: Re: Result of I need your experience - classification and comparison of languages In Yvan Radenac wrote: > Alwyn wrote in message news: 23215607052002@news-text.blueyonder.co.uk>... >> In article , >> yvan.radenac@equant.com (Yvan Radenac) wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > This is the results of the questions i asked few months ago as the >> > post >> > "I need your experience - classification and comparison" >> > The subject of the report is "oriented object languages and their >> > free implementation". First, thank you for your answers. You can >> > find, in french, the report at http://www.cnamoo.net/uv/b5/ftp/mini/ >> > radenac.pdf >> >> Many errors and lacunae in the section 'Historique', I'm afraid. For >> instance, you say that Ada was invented by the American DoD. It comes >> in fact from a team under the direction of Jean Ichbiah, working for >> the French firm, CII Honeywell-Bull. And I thought Ruby was devised >> by a certain Yukihiro Matsumoto. :-) Alwyn > > > Hi, > For the "Historique", > i used a paper on the NET which said that it was Andy Hunt. As i > respect the copyright, i let it as it. But i will add Yukihiro > Matsumoto as you can read page 37. M. Sureau has no entry for Ruby in his 'Histoire'. He has only this to say: 'Il existe cependant une tendance � la modernisation avec des langages de script comme Python , Ruby. NetRexx. Seul Python avec plusieurs centaines de milliers d'utilisateurs, � [sic] une diffusion notable.' http://www.scriptol.org/fr/index.php Overall, I do not find this a reliable source of information on the history of programming languages, and it is remarkable that this French source pays so little attention to developments at INRIA () and by the Frenchman, Bertrand Meyer (). I think you need to do some more research of your own in this area rather than rely on a sigle source. Alwyn