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rbanffy on Feb 3, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Pythonistas Think of Ruby

Actually, I think Java uses Python decoration syntax for annotations, but I have been wrong before.

pmiller2 on Feb 3, 2010 [–]

I'm pretty sure Python picked it up after Java did. But, I don't think it's a case of imitation; it's just that the glyph '@' happened not to have syntactic meaning attached to it and it looks okay.

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