From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ab1d177a5a26577d X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Marco Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What's wrong with C++? Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:24:14 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <00d1a6ec-be5f-43fe-9a0f-b01e055a5632@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@googlegroups.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 97.115.192.118 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1298129054 2125 127.0.0.1 (19 Feb 2011 15:24:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:24:14 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <4d5da890$0$17330$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=97.115.192.118; posting-account=WITAxQkAAAAHjnLda9Lofpqp8mERTWL4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:18423 Date: 2011-02-19T07:24:14-08:00 List-Id: " Use "=3D" rather than ":=3D" for assignment. Virtually all of the most popu= lar programming languages use "=3D" for assignment, which is simpler and pe= rfectly adequate. " Yuck - this was one of the C mistakes - "=3D=3D" is so goofy - I do a lot= of programming in C and still think it was a mistake - Algol used :=3D in = 1960 so no excuses - saving key strokes is a stupid reason to do it the FOR= TRAN way but now we are stuck with it=20