Thanks for the detailed response. I thought it might have been inspired from Haskell or Ruby, but was surprised to find out that C# has a similar syntactic feat

Thanks for the detailed response. I thought it might have been inspired from Haskell or Ruby, but was surprised to find out that C# has a similar syntactic feature. So I was curious if there was an "official" etymology. Sounds like an amalgamation of all of the above.