Interestingly enough here it was kinda but kinda not the other way around: historically PHP used a closed-addressing hash map and threaded a doubly linked list through it to maintain the insertion order.

But the dict TFA talks about doesn't use a doubly linked list, or closed addressing, its ordering is a side-effect of its implementation but not originally a core goal (memory saving and iteration speed were). It'd probably been proposed by others before but it came to wider attention after Raymond Hettinger (a core dev) proposed it a few years back[0]. PHP actually released it first[1], closely followed by pypy[2]. CPython only got around to it some time later[3]

[0] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-December/1...

[1] https://nikic.github.io/2014/12/22/PHPs-new-hashtable-implem...

[2] https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2015/01/faster-more-memory-eff...

[3] https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.html?highlight=3.6#wh...