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7 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 3 stories, 4 comments · first 2020-12-13 · latest 2026-10-25

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  1. The interesting thing is that the weird 'else' keyword actually was invented by German speakers: https://github.com/e-n-f/if-then-else/blob/master/if-then-el...
    comment by flohofwoe · 2025-03-27 · in Rost – Rust Programming in German
  2. …trivia btw is that the 'else' in 'if-else' is a "bad" translation from German into English ;) ( https://github.com/e-n-f/if-then-else/blob/master/if-then-el... )
    comment by flohofwoe · 2024-03-16 · in Telefunken Datenspeicher
  3. There is a neat history of the early syntax of conditional expressions here https://github.com/e-n-f/if-then-else/blob/master/if-then-el... titled “if-then-else had to be invented”. It seems “else” originated in Algol 60 as a hasty…
    comment by fanf2 · 2022-12-12 · in “A damn stupid thing to do” – The origins of CPL, BCPL, and C (2020)
  4. …as if PAM were developed before the invention of the if-then-else construct in the 1950s.[0] [0]: https://github.com/e-n-f/if-then-else/blob/master/if-then-el...
    comment by cormacrelf · 2021-11-10 · in The Surreal Horror of Pam