History of EQ (was: Re: [E-Lang] Progress & Non-Progress Report)

[Dean Tribble]

I agree!!!  :-)

Thank you!  (It was a fun discussion!)

At 02:07 PM 5/17/01 +0100, Tyler Close wrote:
>There seems to be an important historical omission on the "History of the 
>Grant Matcher" page at:
>
>http://www.erights.org/elib/equality/grant-matcher/history.html
>
>I remember the last time I was in the Bay Area, Norm, Dean, MarkM, Ping 
>and I had a group meeting to get the definitive status of the EQ question. 
>Walking into the discussion, all of Norm, MarkM, Ping and I were of the 
>opinion that EQ was necessary and were expecting to see the Grant Matcher 
>Puzzle carry the day. I remember being very surprised (and impressed) when 
>Dean single handedly won the debate by demonstrating that the Grant 
>Matcher Puzzle could also be solved using a sealer/unsealer pair. I 
>remember MarkM conceding the point and deciding that E would continue with 
>EQ for the sole reason of maintaining familiarity for Java programmers. I 
>believe Ping has a more or less complete transcript of the discussion, as 
>he was nominated as stenographer.
>
>Let's update the history books before this one gets lost in the mist of time!