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If you don't mind me asking, what was? I thought it was too.

• jandy 11y ago
  Haskell and Erlang come to mind. They probably weren't the first either.
  • illumen 11y ago
    In python it is quite commonly used too.
• ellyagg 11y ago
  Erlang got it from Prolog and Prolog's been around since 1972.
  • btmiller 11y ago
    We truly stand on the shoulders of giants.
• hellofunk 11y ago
  Clojure idioms use it as well. Lots of languages do.