Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!flatline!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: History of := (was: == vs =)
Message-ID: <1448@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 88 19:44:28 GMT
References: <2337@haddock.ISC.COM> <51300003@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <715@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <3921@aw.sei.cmu.edu>
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Summary: Algol-60 is a statement language?

In article <3921@aw.sei.cmu.edu>, firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
> This
> is because the designers of Algol-60 had the good sense to make it a
> statement language.

a) Why does this show good sense?

b) If I'm not mixing my Algol and PL/1 here, doesn't Algol allow:

	a := if b then c else d;

?
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