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by 3uruiueijjj 185 days ago
I've never found anything to back this up, but my impression was that both the Python / Numpy and Fortran 90 slicing operations were directly inspired by MATLAB (although most of the ideas go back to at least Algol 68).

It also helps that Fortran compatibility is a must for pretty much anything that expects to use BLAS.

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I'm learning just now how old MATLAB is. Wow!