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Re:Giving up on Julia by jimktrains2 on Saturday May 14, 2016 @01:18AM (#11694646)
BASIC did as well IIRC.
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Re:Giving up on Julia by gh02t on Saturday May 14, 2016 @01:39AM (#11694686)
Pascal as well I think. I dunno which was the first to support it, but it's not exactly a popular thing in modern programming.
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Re:Giving up on Julia by FreeFull on Saturday May 14, 2016 @10:31AM (#11696266)
Pascal even let you index with non-numeric types, so you could have an array indexed by the characters a to z, for example.
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Re:Giving up on Julia by int_19h on Saturday May 14, 2016 @02:40AM (#11694799)
It was already there in Algol-60.
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