that was a much more interesting read on the history of how that came about than I expected. I didn’t know that there were so many proposals of how to do the idea
It was actually supposed to be if/ifn’t, but they had too many problems trying to escape the apostrophe when building compilers.
I’m just curious which german word it came from then.
Probably “sonst”.
that makes sense. Danke.
The Germans, from Zürich, Switzerland?
From German, which is spoken in Zürich, Switzerland.
EDIT: Additionally, it seems like the German-speaking authors were Germans, or at least some of them (Klaus Samelson for example)
I commented on the article’s content, not the title. Among others:
“The German authors made two big conceptual leaps in their formulation of the “if” statement.”
The title is correct, maybe by accident.
So did I.
Then, were the German speakers Germans, living in Zürich, or Swiss?
Edit: I see your edit now. That was indeed my (genuine) question.
3/4 of the ones listed on the document in the article were German, with the fourth being Swiss (Heinz Rutishauser).
I’m not convinced they were necessarily living in Zürich, it could just be that the proposal was made at a conference there.
Quite likely some of them had ties to the ETH or they organised the conference. Yes, Rutishauser would have to be Swiss, with that name. Thanks for clarifying.
