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From: art@buengc.BU.EDU (A. R. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: C Ternary Conditional Expression?
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Date: 1 Jun 89 18:01:42 GMT
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In article <79363@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> gateley@m2.UUCP (John Gateley) writes:
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>Just a bit of history about the expression oriented if: Algol was not
>the first language to include this. I am not sure what is, but
>it is probably Lisp, using cond.

Actually it's about a dead heat as both languages were being worked on at
the same time.