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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: C Ternary Conditional Expression?
Message-ID: <8165@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 5 Jun 89 10:15:40 GMT
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In article <79363@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> gateley@m2.UUCP (John Gateley) writes:
 > 
 > 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.
 > 
I do not know, but seeing that Algol and Lisp date from around the same
period (1958-1960), this makes Algol still a good candidate.
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