Goal made use of many inspirations sources both for design and implementation.
Language design was greatly inspired by both K (for syntax and many primitives) and BQN (a few fundamental primitives). I was thinking of Perl and Raku when adding regexp literals (also say), even though the backing implementation is Go's. There is some inspiration from the implementation language, Go: raw strings using backquotes, as well as using the same semantics and syntax for number and string literals.
I wrote the bytecode implementation after reading the one for GoAWK, and it still shows. I wrote the scanner after reading ivy's. Vim syntax highlighting is based on ngn/k's.
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