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Comment by AnimalMuppet

2 days ago

Booleans? I think some guy named Boole might have prior art...

(Yeah, OK, he didn't have a programming language...)

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dang  2 days ago

booleans as values of course.

arguably redundant since GP did say symbolic communication, but Lisp had T before Algol 60 came out

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