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		xyproto on May 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mojo might be the biggest thing to happen in progr... I have not programmed much in Nim, and I think you are mostly right, but Nim also have keywords and concepts not found in Pascal/Ada/Oberon that clearly comes from Python, like "yield" and iterators: `iterator iota(n: int): int = for i in 0..<n: yield i`

Erwin on May 4, 2023 [–]

I think the 1977 Icon language is where the generator concept originated. It had many other cool features I have not seen in other languages since: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_(programming_language)#

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