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What do Interpreted Programming Languages have in Common? Part II

“According to Wikipedia, flow control is “a statement whose
execution results in a choice being made as to which of two or more
paths should be followed. For non-strict functional languages,
functions and language constructs exist to achieve the same result,
but they are not necessarily called control flow statements.” In
other words, it’s a way of making decisions within the program
given different conditions. Speaking of which:

“Conditions: These statements in a program act as a decision
tree or like a set of intersections in a city. The decisions or
route are dependent on what conditions are or are not true
(speaking of Booleans) or where you’re trying to go. The basic
structure of a conditional statement looks something like this:

    if (condition)
    {
         conditional code;
    }


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