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A comment on What’s New In Python 3.6. Parent comment

Re:What’s New In Python 3.6 by noir_lord on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @02:16PM (#13125297)
Yeah we call that PHP (and I say that as someone who uses PHP all day and quite likes it).
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Re:What’s New In Python 3.6 by orf on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @03:23PM (#13125870)
I was actually thinking of PHP as I wrote that comment, I didn't want to call it out directly
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Re:What’s New In Python 3.6 by Animats on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @03:07PM (#13125737)
Oh, that's where it comes from. As a non-PHP user, I thought it was a strange feature.
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Re:What’s New In Python 3.6 by pbiggar on Thursday December 08, 2016 @02:26PM (#13133303)
No, it's much much older than PHP. It's in PHP because it was in Perl (which is also why it's in Ruby). I think iit was in Perl because it was in sh. But I wouldn't be surprised to hear that it's older than that. Snobol maybe?
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