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In article <1448@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
=In article <3921@aw.sei.cmu.edu>, firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
=> This
=> is because the designers of Algol-60 had the good sense to make it a
=> statement language.
=
=a) Why does this show good sense?
=
=b) If I'm not mixing my Algol and PL/1 here, doesn't Algol allow:
=
=	a := if b then c else d;
=
=?


According to the _Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 60_
(CACM Jan 63), Algol 60 does allow statements of that form.  It is still
considered a "statement language".

One has to be careful when discussing "Algol", since there is an Algol
60 and an Algol 68, and they have dramatic differences.