Much of this thread is, as usual, uninformed and even radically ignorant.
Those who find the syntax of COND= uncongenial are---and have for many years
now been---free to use that of IF-THEN-ELSE instead. (Since it inverts the
conventions of COND=, one or the other will presumably please everyone.)
John Gilmore
Ashland, MA 01721-1817
USA
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