if-then-else

!!Con West 2019 talk (by e-n-f)

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  • Telefunken Datenspeicher
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Mar 2024
    I agree that English as lingua franca of computing makes sense, especially when communicating with non-(German)-native speakers. But one important reason why German is no longer viable for this is the terrible state of translation from English to German. Instead of using the "established" German terms, English terms are usually translated 1:1 to German, usually by machine translation, or bad human translators who don't have a technological background.

    And instead of this butchering of the fine German language, just switching to English is indeed the better alternative.

    My favourite trivia is that the 'else' in 'if-else' is a bad translation from German into English btw ;) (https://github.com/e-n-f/if-then-else/blob/master/if-then-el...)

  • “A damn stupid thing to do”–the origins of C
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Dec 2022
    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 translation from German. The CPL project started in the early 1960s when it was not yet certain that Algol-style block structure and keywords would become the common basis of most programming languages.
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here! (44/2022)!
    5 projects | /r/rust | 31 Oct 2022
    If..then..else had to be invented
  • The Surreal Horror of Pam
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Nov 2021
    Not to mention that linux-pam's `[success=2 default=ignore]` isn't even standard, I think OpenPAM only has the five control flags required/requisite/sufficient/binding/optional. (One may reasonably despair as to the difference between "required" and "requisite".)

    It's almost 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...

  • If-then-else had to be invented
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Sep 2021
  • If-Then-Else Had to Be Invented
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Aug 2021
  • if-then-else had to be invented
    1 project | /r/programminglore | 21 Dec 2020
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