>>you said:
One reason might be that Csound was designed to ~have~ an assembly-like
syntax, and if...then...else is not a cpu-level instruction.
			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Umm, trueassembly ( well machine language ) doesn't have as 'rich' ( maybe flexibles
a better word ) branching statement, but cpu's branch if not equal ( direct & indirect)

to 0 instructions can be thought of as if then else statements ( of course most
if then statements arn't just simple boolean checks, but multiple ones requireing
many branch checks @ the ML abstraction( level 1 unless wanna break ML into multiple