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Article #6052Re: colon-equal vs equal
From: Eric S. Raymond
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1988 20:02
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1988 20:02
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In article <3300001@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu>, phil@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> How did the := come into being in languages like Algol, Pascal, and Ada?
It originated with ALGOL-60. The European `bondage-and-discipline' school of
language design (the people who brought you Algol-68, Pascal, Modula, Ada, and
Modula-2 and are now having yet another try at getting their mistakes right in
Modula-3) likes to claim apostolic descent from that language, and
they've retained := and some of its other crotchets.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!snark!eric From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: colon-equal vs equal Message-ID: <eWbWj#4OkIf8=eric@snark.UUCP> Date: 22 Dec 88 20:02:04 GMT References: <3300001@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Wild-Eyed Extremists for Freedom, Inc. Lines: 12