"Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I was just reacting mostly to the OP's statement that "by '86 the Joy of OOP > was widely known".
I (Jive Dadson) said that. I guess I figured that if I knew about it, it was widely known. But in retrospect, I had an information edge. I was in Silicon Valley, working on the Next Big Thing, and I was wired into USENET. My earliest dejagoogle hit is from '86. (It's not under "Jive Dadson", a more recent nom du net.) He didn't say "OOP all began when..." or "OOP was widely > known," which I think still would have been a stretch - he implied that by > '86 OOP was widely recognized as Goodness, to which I disagree. Well, it was widely known by everyone who read the motos I stuck up on my cubicle walls. :-) Jive -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
