Re: First language with conditional assignment?

>Does anyone know what the earliest languages supporting conditional
>assignment were?


There's Algol from c. 1960, with things like:


a := if e > f then b else c;


As for me, I don't like conditional assignments,
much preferring the traditional form --


if e > f then a := b else a := c;

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