modulo binding to (extant) c++ runtime, yep. But this was in spring of '95. Ruby released later in December of that year. Lua was first publicly released in '9

modulo binding to (extant) c++ runtime, yep. But this was in spring of '95. Ruby released later in December of that year. Lua was first publicly released in '94. I learned about the existence of these two a few years later (Lua first, and then Ruby via RoR). mea culpa: there was no reddit or github or HN back in '95. Usenet would have been helpful but it wasn't on my radar in those days. I was just 2 years out of architecture grad school, and not exposed to the CS communities in my student years.