e.g. http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/...
IF ...
THEN
...
FI
translates to if ( ...
) {
...
}
I remember last seeing this code around 1980-82 when I was working with 7th Edition Unix and wondering why someone would want to do that, since it would have made the program hard for another C programmer to read and maintain. (If I remember correctly, this programming style is unique to the shell code.)