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On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 12:30:55 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:

> As I recall, the terms "lvalue" and "rvalue" originated with CPL.

And very useful they have proven, too.

CPL was kind of a rival to PL/I. But as I recall from the design papers 
and stuff, they spent most of their effort on coming up with alternative 
syntaxes for features, rather than on the features themselves.