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Unix started it.

• hedora 9y ago
  Even C has types, and the UNIX API's make heavy use of them. Awk and sed and grep and friends certainly encouraged strings, but I heard there was an even earlier thing called REPL. From what I've read it is not a coincidence that PERL is an anagram of it.
• jnordwick 9y ago
  Linux /proc and /sys were the epicenter