It was copied from Perl6, I believe. In any case, there's nothing wrong with taking good ideas from other languages and modules. And Perl has a long history of doing so. Just look at Perl's origins (awk and sed) and all the modules that are now part of Perl.
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It was copied from Perl6, I believe.
I personally believe that it may have been copied from quite about some hundreds different languages which have been having a specialized function for "printing a line" before, at the same time and later than Python. The idea of actually calling it say() is indeed very perlish, and new to Perl 6. Cop is nothing but an annoying troll.
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FWIW, say function was in Rexx and IIRC at least one LPMud driver and probably elsewhere, though the lineage of the function is hardly important ;-) But yes, Cop is nothing but an annoying troll, and I really wish he'd stop advocating Python - it's making me want to take up VBA for fun.
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