The first use I recall for named parameters was in Algol60. One could write: copyfile(path1)to:(path2) Instead of: copyfile(path1, path2) I always liked

The first use I recall for named parameters was in Algol60. One could write: copyfile(path1)to:(path2) Instead of: copyfile(path1, path2) I always liked that idea, but found Objective-C’s version of this less attractive. Smalltalk had named parameters too. Algol60, to me, had the nicest syntax for this.