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On Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 2:34:05 PM UTC-5, Optikos wrote:
> 2) Algol-family languages (especially the widely-influential Algol60 and =
the otherwise-influential-on-Ada Algol68) utilize brackets [] for array ind=
exing.  Nearly all other programming languages (which often are little more=
 than Algol60 rejiggered a little bit) have followed Algol's lead on array =
indexing via bracket [] syntax.

One exception to this rule is Eiffel, which uses the @ operator. I decided =
to see if I could find a summary, and [1] has it. The only really strange o=
ne IMHO is Haskell, which uses !.

(This doesn't contradict what you wrote; I just thought it was interesting =
trivia.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_languages_%28ar=
ray%29#Indexing