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Re:JavaScript Pattern Matching Proposal by tannhaeuser on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @12:08PM (#16922933)
I believe Erlang inherited its pattern matching from Prolog term unification since Erlang was prototyped as a DSL using Prolog's op built-in predicate (plus other Prolog parsing DSLs such as definite clause grammars).

[1]: http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?predicate=op%2f3

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Re:JavaScript Pattern Matching Proposal by jerf on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @12:23PM (#16923102)
Heh, OK, Erlang was built for pattern matching from... uhh... the water table up? The mantle up? :)
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