On 2/18/2011 2:35 PM, Ed Barkmeyer wrote:
> Bear in mind that Fortran 57 had a conditional expression of the
> if...then...else variety, but in a cruder form taken directly from the
> thinking of the IBM 701/704 instruction set:
> IF (numeric expression) positive-destination, zero-destination,
> negative-destination
> but it was all based on goto's and statement labels.  (01) 
Yes. That was the form that McCarthy found awkward in FLPL
(Fortran List Processing Language).  (02)
> Algol 58 had only:
> if (logical expression) statement
> but<statement> could be begin<statement>* end
> It seems likely that McCarthy's contribution was "else".  (03) 
Yes.  (04)
For more about the similarity between LISP and Java,
please look the reference that Simon Spero found:  (05)
SS
> "We were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about 
>halfway to Lisp."
> - Guy Steele, co-author of the Java spec (quoted in: 
>http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html )  (06) 
I highly recommend that article.  (07)
John  (08)
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