This wasn't remotely true in 2000 when D was being created. AFAIK D was the first after Ada, and certainly popularized it as I made many presentations including it.
Perl 5.000 was released in 1994 (see https://perl.bot/p/kw3gbl for a demonstration that had the syntax)
Edit: That bot is far too easy to be curious with, and unless I got my testing wrong, perl 2 (from 1988) seems to have been where it was added: https://perl.bot/p/jzyi91
All assistance convincing the rest of the world they should also adopt the feature is very much welcome though :D
C is still holding out :-)