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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:29:29 -0800
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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 01.03.2025 23:20, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 21:32:59 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>>>
>>>> My guess is that this form is just an informal syntax mimicking
>>>> Perl's function parameter passing ...
>>>
>>> The idea of passing arguments by keyword predates Perl.
>>
>> That wouldn't surprise me. - I know it from Perl. - Which other
>> (earlier) languages do you have in mind? - What's its origin?
>
> For example, it exists in Ada since 1983.  [...]

The programming language Mesa had keyword arguments sometime in
the mid 1970s.

The job control language JCL had keyword arguments in the 1960s.