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The surprisingly tangled history of if-then-else

Original: If-then-else had to be invented (2020)

A 2020 essay on the invention of the if-then-else construct in programming is drawing fresh attention, arguing that what now seems like the most basic building block of code was not obvious at all and required genuine invention. Readers are discussing how conditional branching was designed, named and standardised across early languages, and why features taken for granted today often had contentious origins.

Why now: Programmers are revisiting the history of a fundamental language construct they normally take for granted.

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• If-then-else had to be invented (2020) · theanonymousone · 165

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