From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com   
      
   On 2025-12-02 13:21:32, bart wrote:   
   > So:   
   >   
   >    if .. then begin ... end else begin ... end   
   >   
   > ... represents multiple statements.   
   >   
   > Even I would see braces in a more favourable light. I wonder why it took   
   > some years for language designers to realise you could simply have:   
   >   
   >    if .. then ... else ... end   
      
   You're misrepresenting history, or at least convey the impression   
   that this would be something new and previously obscure, or that   
   language designers would not know all these syntactical options.   
      
   You had the  if .. then ... else ... fi  syntax as paragon in the   
   back then by language experts well known Algol 68 language, it's   
   been inherited (also in comparable forms), e.g. by the common Unix   
   shell, also in "more recent" languages (with "end") in Eiffel, for   
   example.   
      
   The huge impact of the "C" language syntax might have made that   
   less visible in the modern, contemporary (used, hyped) languages.   
   But there's really nothing to "realize" by language designers, I'm   
   sure.   
      
   Janis   
      
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