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From: Alan Bawden
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Lisp history: IF, etc.
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 22:29:50 -0400
Organization: ITS Preservation Society
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes:
On Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:15:14 -0400, Alan Bawden wrote:
> Other programming languages at the time (e.g. FORTRAN and ALGOL) only
> had conditional statements.
Algol60 had if-expressions, e.g.
a := if b then c else d
Ah yes, the history is slightly more complicated than I remembered.
Algol 58 did not have conditional expressions. But McCarthy then joined
the Algol committee and he suggested that they add conditional
expressions. And so they do appear in Algol 60.
- Alan