if <assignment>:

maney at pobox.com maney at pobox.com
Sun Dec 1 18:41:33 EST 2002


Dan Bishop <danb_83 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> But didn't FORTRAN have that earlier (with = for assignment and .EQ. for equality)?

I try hard not to think about FORTRN.  Anyway, all I meant there was
that Algol had a different spelling without a real need for it, though
I can see now that I shifted my ground somewhat during the time I was
off a-Ghuglin' and didn't put that into the words I typed.



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