Slicing, not as modern as you thought

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On Sunday, 7 July 2019 at 14:12:05 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:
> After watching this retro-computing video [1] I was quite 
> surprised to discover that the lowly Sinclair ZX81 already 
> implemented slicing in its Basic string handling. The syntax 
> was of course typical Basic ad hoc, but it seem to work quite 
> nicely.
>
> [...]

good old modula had that too.