Re: [xml-dev] XML design of ((a and b) or c)

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Richard Salz <>
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Rick Marshall <>
Date
2006-12-13T04:14:41Z
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Re: [xml-dev] XML design of ((a and b) or c)
> blame stephen bourne (i think he started this).
> 
> The famous sh script: programA && programB etc where programB is only 
> run if programA returns true.

Nope, it was a C thing.  (The Bourne shell implemented the sort-circuit 
operators, but itself was implemented in Algol-like C; 
http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/src/cmd/sh/cmd.c.html)

        /r$

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