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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: C like op= proposal
Date: 1999/08/18
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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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