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1978 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Conditional Statements

Author : Brian Meek

Published in: Fortran, PL/I and the Algols

Publisher: Macmillan Education UK

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One keyword that appears in all four of the languages under discussion, and many others besides, is ‘if ’. It is arguably the most important keyword, since it expresses the taking of a decision, the conditional execution of some instruction or sequence of instructions.

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Title
Conditional Statements
Author
Brian Meek
Copyright Year
1978
Publisher
Macmillan Education UK
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04052-0_3

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