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When I met Walter at an OSCON in 2008 we were both annoyed that more languages hadn't already stolen it. "Achieved what perl had managed in 1988 and D in 2000"
by mst 5y ago
When I met Walter at an OSCON in 2008 we were both annoyed that more languages hadn't already stolen it.
"Achieved what perl had managed in 1988 and D in 2000" is not honestly a point in favour of languages who worked it out somewhere in the past decade.
- jhayward 5y agoWhat an odd way of looking at it. It's not a contest. It's a diffusion of ideas that are helpful.
- mst 5y agoI agree that its helpful and you notice Ive been firmly on the side of everybody stealing it - which is why "pretty much every language has that" rather than "oh, cool, that's a really nice feature and it's interesting to learn where it diffused from" was such an oddly dismissive response to Walter and I enthusing about it.