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To a certain degree yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esagil-kin-apli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esagil-kin-apli In this Mesopotamian text, diagnostic rules are structured as a nest of if then else rules. So I have been told, not that I have read it myself.