From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: C like op= proposal
Date: 1999/08/18
Date: 1999-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7pd6th$2qj$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3u2pyutzu.fsf@fred.muc.de
In article <m3u2pyutzu.fsf@fred.muc.de>,
Andi Kleen <ak-uu@muc.de> wrote:
> [1] To attribute correctly this is an old argument from, I
believe
> Dennis Ritchie, in a prehistoric article about C. I think he's
right.
No, this is older than C, these notations were around in
Algol variants (as +:=) before C existed. Note that Algol-68
has these operators.
But there are many other factors in the Ada decision. Please
go look up old threads, I don't feel like going over this stuff
again myself :-)
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-15 0:00 C like op= proposal Brian Rogoff
1999-08-15 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1999-08-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-16 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-17 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1999-08-19 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Lance Kibblewhite
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-20 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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