Wikipedia lists Algol68 as the first language to support tagged unions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_union#Timeline_of_language_support On 6/28/20 6:22 PM, Donn Cave wrote:
quoth Olaf Klinke
I just want to say a big thank you to the Haskell creators for giving us a tool to efficiently write real world code (as it is called above).
[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0622/#rationale-and-goals
And if I understand that you mean the variants and pattern matching, another big thank you to the creators of ML in the '70s. Was that the origin of anything recognizable as variant types?
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