From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2003-09-15T02:31:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Duck Typing


On Sunday, September 14, 2003, at 11:43 AM, Alex Martelli wrote:

>> Mark Wilson <mwilson13@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> I've seen some adoption of the term among python people recently.
>>

> I would claim independent invention, given that my post of Jul 2000
> to c.l.py where I mused:
> """
> [snip]
> """
>
> was done before I had ever heard of Ruby, and explained as
> """
> [snip]

> while the first mention I can find in comp.lang.ruby is in
> a Jan 2001 post by Ben Tilly:
> """
> [snip]"""
>
> Of course, it's quite possible that Google Groups' archive
> is incomplete for either or both languages.

It would not be the first time I was wrong. :-)

Regards,

Mark