[J3] Evaluation of arguments to MERGE

[Van Snyder]

On Wed, 2024-03-27 at 23:36 -0700, Robert Corbett via J3 wrote:
> I read a paper by John McCarthy in which he asserted that he had
> added an intrinsic function XIF to a FORTRAN compiler.  His XIF
> function was equivalent to the scalar version of MERGE.  He further
> asserted that experience with XIF led him to propose adding
> conditional expressions to the International Algorithmic Language
> IAL.  IAL was later renamed Algol.

I shared an office with an erstwhile colleague of Jules Stern at Rand.
He told me that Jules had invented his own version of IAL, Jules Own
Version of IAL, or JOVIAL.

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