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fanf2 on Aug 9, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (201...

Proper lexical closures were a prominent feature of Perl 5 in the mid 1990s - hardly unknown!

Type inference dates from 1969 (Hindley) and 1978 (Milner)

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