DISQUS

DaveEveritt · 3 years ago

Forgive me if this is obvious, but single-quote 'just-a-string' and double quote "$variable interpolation" behavour has been present Perl for oh... ages, with and without curly braces. If I understand the history of Ruby aright, some Perl functionality made its way into Ruby. Which (as an occasional 'web programmer' dabbling in Ruby) I like.
Paul Watson · 3 years ago

Yup, JavaScript does it too (I think.) Going into the histories of what language pinched what feature from what language is crazy though.