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Re:Ask HN: Great programming language features, other langua... by Foober223 on Thursday July 16, 2020 @03:25PM (#23862819)
They got that from lisp.

But in lisp it's more than just a syntax trick that only works for a few predefined cases.

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Re:Ask HN: Great programming language features, other langua... by Jtsummers on Thursday July 16, 2020 @03:28PM (#23862857)
And Algol and others. It's a nice feature when available, certainly my preference. I find I can often write things more cleanly given an expression oriented languages than ones dominated by statements.
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