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I am surprised noone mentioned Erlang!

Tuples and pattern matching are the bread and butter in Erlang and deserve to be mentioned as one of the source of inspiration for the Swift language.

The '_' character used to ignore some values in loops/patterns was also taken from Erlang (for _ in array { ... }).




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