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		threedaymonk on April 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Python developers need to know before migrati... That if/else syntax is used in K&R's The C Programming Language, the source of Unix (and thus of FreeBSD etc.), and it's pretty common in JavaScript. It may not be the most common syntax in modern C, but it's hardly weird or obscure.

masklinn on April 24, 2013 [–]

> That if/else syntax is used in K&R's The C Programming Language, the source of Unix (and thus of FreeBSD etc.)

And it's part of Sun/Oracle's official java coding conventions.

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