Re: First language with conditional assignment?

glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> compilers@is-not-my.name wrote:
>> Does anyone know what the earliest languages supporting conditional
>> assignment were? Although the construct is useful I don't like the syntax in
>> C-like languages. I am curious if there were earlier examples and what the
>> syntax was.
> ALGOL, I believe ALGOL 60 (I don't know the versions very well)
> has the "conditional arithmetic expression" as:
> A := IF I<0 THEN R ELSE 3;
...


Of course there is always Konrad Zuze and his "thought experiment"
programming language(s) from the 30s.


I think most/many of the statements in his languages were conditional --
if so, a forerunner of today's microcode.


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