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"James Dennett" <james.dennett@gmail.com> writes:
>> Some (all?) books on Ruby have sectioins devoted to Duck Typing. I think the
>> Ruby users coined the term first.
>
> http://www.akropolix.net/rik0/blogs/2007/03/13/duck-hyping-and-ruby/
> suggests otherwise:  "Amazingly, the term 'duck typing' (that some
> think it's a Ruby peculiar feature) was probably used for the first
> time by Alex Martelli when speaking about Python typing system.

It's quite important that we narrow down who was responsible for this
stupid name (describing a venerable concept).

:-/

-Miles

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