[KineticLensman]

> If you look at, say, the evolution of the “if” statement, it was a number of years before this “obvious” control structure was added to programming languages

As described [0] and discussed [1] a few weeks ago. Fascinating.

[0] https://github.com/ericfischer/if-then-else/blob/master/if-t...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25406211