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by throwaway7645 3323 days ago
Val might have originally been OCaml or Haskell.
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mahmud 3323 days ago
Standard ML, rather.

It might have appeared in earlier MLs as an extension.

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throwaway7645 3322 days ago
And I was soooo close :)
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bschwindHN 3323 days ago
I mean the combination of val (immutable) and var (mutable) as keywords to declare bindings. OCaml uses let and so does Haskell, right?
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