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by bashinator 4836 days ago
I think the bourne shell if..then..else..fi syntax is derived from Algol.
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According to the ALGOL 68 page at Wikipedia: "Steve Bourne, who was on the Algol 68 revision committee, took some of its ideas to his Bourne shell (and thereby, to descendant shells such as Bash) and to C (and thereby to descendants such as C++)."