The future of Emacs, Guile, and Emacs Lisp

Posted Oct 24, 2014 15:01 UTC (Fri) by hirnbrot (guest, #89469)
In reply to: The future of Emacs, Guile, and Emacs Lisp by nye
Parent article: The future of Emacs, Guile, and Emacs Lisp

The Simpsons actually had a bit called "Married To The Blob", which was a reference to the earlier (1958) horror film called "The Blob".

So the word is at least older than UNIX.

The future of Emacs, Guile, and Emacs Lisp

Posted Oct 24, 2014 17:06 UTC (Fri) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]

Samuel Johnson's famous dictionary mentions a blob as being "a word used in some counties for a bubble".

Two modern dictionaries I have both suggest the word first appeared in the 15th century. If so, that's before Early Modern English stabilised. So as far as the language we use today is concerned, the word "blob" has always existed although its exact meaning has drifted of course.