From: derekrss@yahoo.ca   
      
   On Mar 3, 2:05 am, compil...@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.   
      
   In Snobol4 assignment statements are conditional using the syntax   
      
   A = LT(x, y) 3   
      
   Cheers   
      
   Derek   
      
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