Ternary operators

Daniel Silverstone asks about ternary operators, and whether people like to use them.

Well, I know I do. In fact, it's the single operator I like to use a lot. Too much, in fact -- sometimes I abuse it in horrible ways, such as nesting the thing three times, or so. Which is stuff that gets removed after a first reading, of course.

Most of the Microsoft languages have IIF, a function that does basically the same thing (as in "iif(condition, trueval, falseval)"). I find that a bit more intuitive than the ?: construct, but the difference isn't that important since it's semantically the same thing (and, more importantly, the ?: operator requires less characters, so is nicer).

I'm not sure about most other languages. I have learned a lot of programming languages at school, but it's been way too long, and I don't use most of them anymore. I'm quite positive that COBOL does not support it, so you need to type it out in a full 'if' structure. But that's okay, because writing COBOL feels like writing a novel anyway.