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AFAIK it is the opposite of what you have said. And although Julia has a lot of inspiration of Matlab syntax, it is absolutely not derived from it. https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/

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There are many fine languages that have used `end` to delimit blocks, including: Pascal — an elegant, classic language (and my first, personally); Ruby — another gem (get it). And yes, also Matlab, which is hardly unique in this respect.

Right, but Julia is not derived from Ruby or Pascal.

Julia isn't derived from Matlab either and was influenced as much by Ruby as by Matlab.

> derive: base a concept on an extension or modification of (another concept).

Obviously I didn't mean the implementation was based on MATLAB because that would be impossible.

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