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sp332 on Sept 22, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ruby’s magic underscore

Haskell is a relatively recent language; I know that Prolog (a completely different paradigm) did the same for underscores back in 1972, and I wouldn't be surprised if there is an even earlier example.

zaptheimpaler on Sept 22, 2012 | [–]

ML, a functional programming language developed in early 1970 used underscores as wildcards too.

freyrs3 on Sept 23, 2012 | [–]

> Haskell is a relatively recent language

Not really, it's older than both Ruby and Python. Compared to Prolog and C, yes I suppose so.

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