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Join the elements of a list, in correct english

Create a function join that takes a List and produces a string containing an english language concatenation of the list. It should work with the following examples:
join([Apple, Banana, Carrot]) = "Apple, Banana, and Carrot"
join([One, Two]) = "One and Two"
join([Lonely]) = "Lonely"
join([]) = ""
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php
function ImplodeToEnglish($array) {
// sanity check
if (!$array || !count ($array))
return "";

// get last element
$last = array_pop($array);

// if it was the only element - return it
if (!count ($array))
return $last;

return implode(", ", $array)." and ".$last;
}
//example
ImplodeToEnglish(array("Apple", "Banana")); // returns: Apple and Banana
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clojure
(defn join [lst]
(cond
(= (count lst) 0) ""
(= (count lst) 1) (first lst)
(= (count lst) 2) (str (first lst) " and " (second lst))
(> (count lst) 2) (loop [lst lst sb (StringBuilder.)]
(if (empty? lst)
(.toString sb)
(recur (rest lst) (.append sb (cond
(> (count lst) 2) (str (first lst) ", ")
(> (count lst) 1) (str (first lst) ", and ")
(= (count lst) 1) (str (first lst)))))))))
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clojure
(defn join
([lst]
(join lst false))
([lst is-long]
(condp = (count lst)
0 ""
1 (first lst)
2 (str (first lst) (if is-long ",") " and " (second lst))
(str (first lst) ", " (join (rest lst) true)))))
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cpp C++/CLI .NET 2.0
Console::WriteLine(join(fruit));
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cpp
string join(const vector<string> &s, int b=0)
{
switch (s.size() - b)
{
case 0: return "";
case 1: return s[b];
case 2: return s[b] + (s.size() > 2 ? "," : "") + " and " + s[b+1];
default: return s[b] + ", " + join(s, b+1);
}
}

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