[Solved] Who invented the switch statement? [closed]
Lisp has cond which Wikipedia’s source places in the 1956-1958 timeframe. I invented conditional expressions in connection with a set of chess legal move routines I wrote in FORTRAN for the IBM 704 at M.I.T. during 1957-58…A paper defining conditional expressions and proposing their use in Algol was sent to the Communications of the ACM … Read more