2025-07-24 06:30:41 Objective C has @"strings" and uses @ for some directives. I don't do much Perl, but I remember using @ there. 2025-07-24 06:31:34 It's also usrd in decorators in Python 2025-07-24 06:32:46 oh yeah, thanks 2025-07-24 06:38:49 also Java @annotations 2025-07-24 06:38:55 which I think is where Python got it? 2025-07-24 14:53:41 It's used in msp430 assembly for address dereferencing and in some other assembly for comments