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Article #670:=
From: Andrew Malton
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1989 22:29
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1989 22:29
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Apparently := to express the assignment operation was used faute de mieux in Algol since the arrow <--- originally chosen for this purpose wasn't available on teletypes. Does anyone know a reference for this story? Or, is it folklore. Please send email. ----- Andrew Malton, U of Toronto Dept of Computer Science malton@csri.toronto.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!csri.toronto.edu!malton Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.software-eng From: malton@csri.toronto.edu (Andrew Malton) Subject: := Message-ID: <1989Oct3.182931.518@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI Date: 3 Oct 89 22:29:32 GMT