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Article #688Re: :=
From: Mark Grand
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1989 16:39
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1989 16:39
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In article <6054@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>, toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes: > I used an HP Algol on an early HP minicomputer (2114?) and used the left > I personally would like to see the left arrow back. It makes more sense > than colon equal (gag, why couldn't they at least have used <- ?) and both > of these are easier to explain than the use of just the equals sign for > assignment. Back then (late sixties) keypunches were the most common way of getting a program into machine readable form. Not all keypunches had '<'.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!hacgate!ashtate!markg From: markg@ashtate (Mark Grand) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: := Summary: Why left arrow wasn't rendered as <- Message-ID: <756@ashton.UUCP> Date: 5 Oct 89 16:39:36 GMT References: <1989Oct3.182931.518@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <6054@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> Organization: Ashton-Tate, Torrance, CA Lines: 9