Yes, certainly. the method of bracketing control structures used in the Bourne Shell was ripped straight from Algol 68, in which loop “bodies” were enclosed between do and od.

Yes, certainly. the method of bracketing control structures used in the Bourne Shell was ripped straight from Algol 68, in which loop “bodies” were enclosed between do and od.

This is a quote about it (from wikipedia):

Stephen Bourne's coding style was influenced by his experience with the ALGOL 68C compiler[2] that he had been working on at Cambridge University. In addition to the style in which the program was written, Bourne reused portions of ALGOL 68's if ~ then ~ elif ~ then ~ else ~ fi, case ~ in ~ esac and for/while ~ do ~ od" (using done instead of od) clauses in the common Unix Bourne shell syntax.

Yes, certainly. Bash's method of bracketing control structures was ripped straight from Algol 68, in which loop “bodies” were enclosed between do and od.

Yes, certainly. the method of bracketing control structures used in the Bourne Shell was ripped straight from Algol 68, in which loop “bodies” were enclosed between do and od.