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I think Ruby got it from PERL... And I'm not sure if PERL was the first language to use these, either. EDIT: of course, there's Smalltalk, where postfix condit

I think Ruby got it from PERL... And I'm not sure if PERL was the first language to use these, either. EDIT: of course, there's Smalltalk, where postfix conditionals and loops are the only form available. Maybe Ruby got inspired by those.

Retra 11y ago
Algol 60 had conditional expressions. Pretty much every functional language and LISP has them. They've also been in use in mathematics for longer than computers have been around.