Result of I need your experience - classification and comparison of languages

[Alwyn]

In <b9660815.0205080201.510c822e at posting.google.com> Yvan Radenac wrote:
> Alwyn <alwyn at alwyn.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<alwyn-014BC5.
> 23215607052002 at news-text.blueyonder.co.uk>...
>> In article <b9660815.0205070928.79f86983 at posting.google.com>,
>>  yvan.radenac at 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 à la modernisation avec des langages 
de script comme Python , Ruby. NetRexx. Seul Python avec plusieurs 
centaines de milliers d'utilisateurs, à [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 (<http://www.
irnia.fr/>) and by the Frenchman, Bertrand Meyer (<http://www.eiffel.
com>). I think you need to do some more research of your own in this 
area rather than rely on a sigle source. 


Alwyn