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by klyrs 1401 days ago
Pattern matching has quite a long history[1]; it's been around in some form since 1957. It's been enjoying a bit of a renaissance lately; I suspect that's a result of Haskell's popularity but I don't really know.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_matching

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Not a CS major, thanks for the link!