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the typing system seems to be from ecmascript as well var distance:Double = 70.0

• munificent 12y ago
  This type annotation syntax comes from ML in the 70s (60s?).
  • Sami_Lehtinen 12y ago
    Programmers here? But they haven't ever heard of BASIC? LET has been used for variables least since 1968.
    • zimpenfish 12y ago
      Hasn't it been used for binding in LISPs since the early 1960s? Swings and roundabouts.
  • Raphael_Amiard 12y ago
    Pascal actually predates ML and has this syntax too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language)