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>> Bourne shell took reversed-spelling terminator keywords like "fi", "od", "esac" etc from A68. <<

One difference between Bourne shell and Algol 68 is that Bourne uses “done” instead of “od”, because “od” was already used by the octal dump command! The Bournegol source used DO-OD though - https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd...




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